0 past simple and past participle of mystify
1 to confuse someone by being or doing something very strange or impossible to explain:
Romanticism's notion of originality, in my view, mystified the notion of fame by substituting a cultural criterion for the economic one.
Continued reference to customary law kept the agents of the state mystified about and marginal to important affairs of the region and community.
In effect, the research process could not be mystified and my performance as a researcher was transparent.
The plaintiff seemed quite mystified by this remark.
But before you get it, you can be quite mystified as to what is going on.
She then dramatically revealed that the clothing appeared complete and uncut; so that the seance-goers were mystified as to how the pieces she distributed had been produced.
Empathy has long mystified social theorists, resisting simple description and explanation.
He is mystified intentionally, now presented with illusion for reality, now reality for illusion, jolted from one to the other until in complete befuddlement he is sure of nothing.
