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Bemuse (2 syl.)

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To get into a dreamy, half-intoxicated state.

“Bemusing himself with beer.”—Sala: Gaslight and Daylight.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Belvidera (in Otway’s Venice Preserved)
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Ben trovato (Italian)
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