bemuse

1. (transitive) To confuse or bewilder.Examples: "[With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies."; "the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves"; "With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition."transitive

2. (transitive, sometimes proscribed) To be amused, especially sardonically.proscribedsometimestransitive

3. (archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.Examples: "When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd"archaichumorous

4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To make drunk; to intoxicate.Examples: "a parson much be-mus'd in beer"; "This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight."; "[…] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen."obsoleteslangtransitive