bemuse

verb4

1. •
   To confuse or bewilder.

   • [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies. — 1771
2. •
   (nonstandard) To be amused, especially sardonically.
3. •
   (slang, no longer used) To make drunk; to intoxicate.

   • This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight. — 1784
4. •
   (humorous, no longer used) To devote to the Muses.

   • When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd — 1705