bewilder
bih-WIL-derverbMeaning to confuse completely, often with too many things at once
Memory hook be-WILD-er: lost in the WILD. Sami steps off the trail, and the jungle closes in around him: vines everywhere, paths in every direction. He is bewildered.
The huge airport, with its hundred gates and blinking signs, bewildered Granny Mae.
In context The new phone’s menus bewildered Dad: every button opened three more choices, and soon he had no idea how to get back to the start.
Similar confuse, perplex, befuddle, disorient
Opposite enlighten, orient
From be- (thoroughly) + an old verb wilder, “to lead astray,” as if into a wilderness.