befog

== English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ fog. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɒɡ === Verb === befog (third-person singular simple present befogs, present participle befogging, simple past and past participle befogged) To envelop in fog or smoke. 1953, Jean Stafford, “Cops and Robbers” (original title: “The Shorn Lamb”) in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Dutton, 1984, p. 432, Sad, in her covert, Hannah saw that her mother was now sitting straight against the headboard and was smoking a cigarette in long, meditative puffs; the smoke befogged her frowning forehead. To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151,[2] The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment. To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). === References === “befog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Hungarian == === Etymology === be- +‎ fog === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbɛfoɡ] Hyphenation: be‧fog Rhymes: -oɡ === Verb === befog (transitive, of ears, mouth, eyes) to cover (transitive, of a draught animal) to harness (to attach a draught animal to a carriage) (transitive, of a person) to make someone work (transitive) to clamp (to grip tightly in a vice) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === befog in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. befog in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).