"flustered" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more flustered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most flustered",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "flusteredly"
        },
        {
          "word": "flusteredness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The speaker became quite flustered when she dropped all her notes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 26, “Tory leadership: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss in fiercest clash yet over tax”, in BBC News",
          "text": "Behind the scenes, Truss's camp feel positive too—claiming that while she stayed calm Sunak was “flustered”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 8, Joe Gibson, “‘I can’t believe Miss P is naked in front of me’: the affair with a teacher that changed my life”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "I ring her bell and I’m buzzed in. My Spanish teacher, Miss P – Ali – is standing in the doorway, looking flustered.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion."
      ],
      "id": "en-flustered-en-adj-EE6xuXJZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "Confused",
          "confused"
        ],
        [
          "befuddled",
          "befuddled"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fluttered"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
          "word": "hämillään"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
          "word": "verwirrt"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
          "word": "nervös"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
          "word": "hūkiki"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flustered"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "fluster"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of fluster"
      ],
      "id": "en-flustered-en-verb-SIcZM4V~",
      "links": [
        [
          "fluster",
          "fluster#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fluster"
        },
        {
          "word": "catch off guard"
        }
      ],
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        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
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  ],
  "word": "flustered"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "flusteredly"
    },
    {
      "word": "flusteredness"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more flustered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most flustered",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The speaker became quite flustered when she dropped all her notes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 26, “Tory leadership: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss in fiercest clash yet over tax”, in BBC News",
          "text": "Behind the scenes, Truss's camp feel positive too—claiming that while she stayed calm Sunak was “flustered”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 8, Joe Gibson, “‘I can’t believe Miss P is naked in front of me’: the affair with a teacher that changed my life”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "I ring her bell and I’m buzzed in. My Spanish teacher, Miss P – Ali – is standing in the doorway, looking flustered.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion."
      ],
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        [
          "Confused",
          "confused"
        ],
        [
          "befuddled",
          "befuddled"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fluttered"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
      "word": "hämillään"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
      "word": "verwirrt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
      "word": "nervös"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "In a state of panic, being overwrought with confusion",
      "word": "hūkiki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flustered"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "fluster"
    },
    {
      "word": "catch off guard"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "fluster"
        }
      ],
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        "simple past and past participle of fluster"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fluster",
          "fluster#English"
        ]
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  "word": "flustered"
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