bedunce

Etymology

From be- + dunce.

bedunce means to treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

verb

To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.“After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.”