Usually means: Confuse or puzzle someone deeply.
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  1. perplex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. perplex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perplex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perplex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perplex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perplex, perplex: Wordnik
  7. perplex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perplex: Wiktionary
  9. perplex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perplex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. perplex: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Perplex, perplex: Dictionary.com
  13. perplex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Perplex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. perplex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. perplex: Rhymezone
  17. perplex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. perplex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. perplex: Free Dictionary
  20. perplex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. perplex: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. perplex: Legal dictionary

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  1. perplex: Encyclopedia

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  1. perplex: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See perplexed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
verb:  (transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
adjective:  (now rare) intricate; difficult
noun:  (obsolete) A difficulty.

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