Usually means: Causes confusion or puzzlement mentally.
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  1. perplexes: Merriam-Webster
  2. perplexes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perplexes: Vocabulary.com
  4. perplexes: Wordnik
  5. perplexes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perplexes: Wiktionary
  7. perplexes: Dictionary.com
  8. perplexes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. perplexes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perplexes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See perplex as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (perplex)

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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