1.  befuddle(v = verb.cognition) bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
is one way to be
Derived form noun befuddlement₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

2.  befuddle(v = verb.consumption) fuddle - make stupid with alcohol; Array
is one way to inebriate, intoxicate, soak
Sample sentences: Something ----s somebody

   To becloud and confuse, as with liquor. [1913 Webster]

befuddle, v.tr.
1 make drunk.
2 confuse.

Derivative:
befuddlement n.

VB  get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.