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PRONUNCIATION:  pz
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: posed, pos·ing, pos·es
To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.
ETYMOLOGY:Short for appose, to examine closely (from Middle English apposen, alteration of opposen; see oppose)and from French poser, to assume (obsolete) (from Old French; see pose1).
 
 
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