befuddle

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: be=fud=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

befuddle, v. t. 

 To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

befuddle, v.tr.
1 make drunk.
2 confuse.

Derivative

befuddlement n.

THESAURUS

befuddle

addle, addle the wits, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, bemuse, besot, bewilder, bother, bug, cloud, confuse, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, distract, disturb, embarrass, entangle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, inebriate, intoxicate, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, throw into confusion, throw off, unsettle, upset

ROGET THESAURUS

befuddle

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.