Meaning of CONFUSE
| Pronunciation: | | kun'fyooz
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- [v] make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"
- [v] make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
- [v] be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- [v] mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- [v] assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- [v] cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
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| | Synonyms: | | bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, disconcert, flurry, fox, fuddle, jumble, mistake, mix up, put off, throw |
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| | See Also: | | abash, addle, alter, amaze, assemble, baffle, be, beat, bewilder, bother, change, construe, deflect, demoralize, disorient, disorientate, distract, dumbfound, embarrass, flummox, fluster, get, gravel, interpret, muddle, muddy, mystify, nonplus, perplex, piece, pose, puddle, put together, puzzle, see, set up, stupefy, tack, tack together, vex | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Con*fuse"\, a. [F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of
confundere. See {Confound}.]
Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] --Baret.
\Con*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confused}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Confusing}.]
1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished;
to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or
obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and
voices all confused. --Milton.
2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose
self-possession.
Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that
leads melodious days. --Tennyson.
Confused and sadly she at length replied. --Pope.
Syn: To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound;
obscure; distract. See {Abash}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abash, addle, addle the wits, agitate, baffle, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, blur, blur distinctions, bollix up, botch, bother, buffalo, bug, cap, cast down, chagrin, cloud, color, complicate, confound, daze, dazzle, deform, derange, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dishevel, dismay, disorder, disorganize, disorient, disquiet, distort, distract, disturb, dizzy, embarrass, embrangle, ensnarl, entangle, faze, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fog up, foul up, fuddle, fumble, fuss, fuzz, garble, implicate, involve, jumble, jumble together, knock galley-west, knot, louse up, make uncertain, maze, mess up, miscolor, misdeem, misguide, misidentify, mislead, mist, mix, mix up, mizzle, moider, mortify, muck up, muddle, muddy, mull, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, overlook distinctions, perplex, perturb, pervert, pi, play hob with, pose, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, ramify, rattle, ravel, riffle, ruffle, scramble, screw up, shame, shuffle, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stumble, tangle, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, throw out, tumble, twist, unform, unsettle, unshape, upset, warp, wrench, wrest |
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