mystify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make mysterious

   mystify the story

2. 2
   verb

   To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

   Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.

3. 3
   verb

   be a mystery or bewildering to

Etymology

From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”) + Latin -ficare.