Definition of "befogged" in English

adjective

1. Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.

   • 1614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter, […] euery one a Furies shape assumes, Befog’d and clouded with my hel-hatch’d fumes.

2. (nautical) Caught in fog.

3. Confused, muddled.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX, If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of befog