| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To make complex, intricate, or perplexing: complicate, entangle, involve, perplex, ravel, snarl2, tangle. See SIMPLE. 2. To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed: abash, chagrin, confound, confuse, discomfit, discomfort, disconcert, discountenance, faze, mortify. Idioms: put on the spot, throw for a loop. See PAIN.
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