befuddle
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～ be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
befuddle
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～ make stupid with alcohol
beg
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～ call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
beg
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～ make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"
beg
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～ dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
beg
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～ ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
beget
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～ make (offspring) by reproduction; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "John fathered four daughters"
beggar
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～ be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
begild
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～ decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
begin
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～ have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
begin
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～ begin to speak or say; "`Now listen, friends', he began"
begin
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～ set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
begin
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～ have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
begin
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～ be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
begin
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～ take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
begin
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～ begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"
begin
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～ have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
begin
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～ begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
begin
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～ achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"