ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Befogged

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Befogged is an adjective meaning Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.

Meaning

Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.

More Meanings

  1. (nautical) Caught in fog.
  2. Confused, muddled.
  3. simple past and past participle of befog

Example Sentences

[…] you speake you wot not what, you are altogether befogd and benighted in this question.
Limpet said the effect of this method was to give "Vibration," an explanation which left the curate hopelessly befogged.
[…] this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast, it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts, he was becalmed and befogged, and stood S. wards into the channell […]
Peter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, in the befogged gaslight, the bookstall standard of literature and asked himself whose character had fallen to pieces now.

Synonyms for befogged

Depending on context, synonyms include befuddled, confused.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include befuddled, confused, foggy, foggish, hazy, murky.

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