BEMUSED
\bɪmjˈuːsd], \bɪmjˈuːsd], \b_ɪ_m_j_ˈuː_s_d]\
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deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"
By Princeton University
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