The word "mystify" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe an action or event that baffles or confuses someone. For example: "The magician mystified the audience with his spectacular illusions."
That would completely mystify the public," said Astle.
FEW firms mystify investors as much as Cablevision, America's sixth-largest cable-TV operator.
Stella, his daughter, tried to find a publisher for over 20 years and the first book was published only in 1964, when Martin was already 84 years old.Uncle's disappearance continues to mystify his devotees.
Not one to mystify his profession, he is friendly and accessible.
Many of the British contestants previously appeared in the sort of miserabilist soap operas, set in launderettes and fish-and-chip shops, which mystify American visitors.
The poets, of whom little is known, appear to have come at the close of a priestly poetical tradition, rivalling one another in allusions to obscure exploits, in language often opaque and at times intended to mystify.
Speaking from the small room in the Knightsbridge embassy where he lives, sleeps and continues to run his website, while receiving a stream of visitors, Mr Assange pronounced himself guilty of "over-delegating" – a notion which would probably mystify some of his critics, who consider him the ultimate control freak.
In a 1993 interview with The Independent, the best-selling crime writer Reginald Hill said: "It is easy to mystify.
Without any context, pieces such as the gnomic, Beckett-like pages by the excellent Jon McGregor may mystify readers.
By cancelling out the ordinary neatness of narrative explanation, Shakespeare does not merely mystify his people, as the Mona Lisa is made mysterious by the occluding fog of her sfumato; he humanizes them.
On the one hand, there are the calculations that the pros make in private; on the other, elaborate ritual and language, designed to bamboozle and mystify and intimidate.
