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–verb (used with object) 

1. to overwhelm or bewilder, as with the magnitude, complexity, or abnormality of: The speed of light boggles the mind. 

2. to bungle; botch. 

–verb (used without object) 

3. to hesitate or waver because of scruples, fear, etc.

4. to start or jump with fear, alarm, or surprise; shrink; shy.

5. to bungle awkwardly.

6. to be overwhelmed or bewildered. 



–noun 

7. an act of shying or taking alarm.

8. a scruple; demur; hesitation.

9. bungle; botch. 





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boggle (v.), mind-boggling (adj.) 

 

Boggle is Standard as both a transitive verb with a direct object, as in What she heard simply boggled her mind, or an intransitive verb, as in Having heard the news, I have to admit that my mind boggles. 



The intransitive verb also combines regularly with at (I boggle [at] the thought of paying so much). 



The adjective mind-boggling (The new numbers were mind-boggling) is also Standard. 





　

The tough look at poverty and crime at all levels of society shoves the occasional coincidences and questionable plot developments firmly to the side, and the rush Boyle manifestly got from shooting such an intense story on these locations is fully felt in the film. 



The logistic considerations alone must have been [mind]-boggling, as a majority of scenes include what seem like hundreds of bystanders. 



Lenser Anthony Dod Mantle’s camera is often on the [prowl] or the run, and it sometimes dashes through jammed streets and shantytown alleys at the speed of the sprinting kids themselves. Images are stunning sans arty posturing, and Chris Dickens’ editing is breathless without being exhausting.





opacity

the quality of being [opaque]

As with Basquiat, there's a certain dreamy [opacity] [to] Before Night Falls. 

obfuscate

to obfuscate a problem with [ex]traneous information.  

hermetic 

alchemy

occult

of or pertaining to magic, astrology or any system supernatural 

They have special knowledge, [occult] beliefs, revolutionary health practices.  

Boris Balkan, a millionaire New Yorker with a vast collection of [occult] literature.



unintelligible 

Penn goes for larger-than-life, wrapping his pinched [frown] around an [un]intelligible Louisiana [drawl] and swinging his arms like an autistic evangelist.



enigma 

sphinx 

flummox 

Flummoxed by [feminine] conspiracies they're always the last to know about

With Cesar Romero chewing scenery as gangster Duke Santos and Akim Tamiroff having fun as easily [flummoxed] criminal Spyros Acebos,

Crypto