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mystification

/mis-tuh-fahy/US // ˈmɪs təˌfaɪ //UK // (ˈmɪstɪˌfaɪ) //

神化,神秘化,神化现象,神化作用

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mys·ti·fied, mys·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to perplex by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
    • : to involve in mystery or obscurity.

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Examples

  • Mr. Longdon's momentary mystification was perhaps partly but the natural effect of constitutional prudence.

  • For a time mystification, then changing to weird fear, as a sense of the supernatural stole over him.

  • The sanguine confidence of the community had not subsided into doubt so much as into helpless mystification.

  • That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

  • And all life appears to Riabovich an absurd mystification and seems thoroughly senseless.