define bemuse
bemuse (third-person singular simple present bemuses, present participle bemusing, simple past and past participle bemused) ( 1 transitive) To confuse or bewilder. 1735 A parson much be-mus'd in beer. ( 2 archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses. 1705 When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd.