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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perplex: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perplex: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  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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