What does confuse mean?
Definitions for confuse
kənˈfyuzcon·fuse
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Princeton's WordNet
confuse, confoundverb
mistake one thing for another
"you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulateverb
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"
confuse, flurry, disconcert, put offverb
cause to feel embarrassment
"The constant attention of the young man confused her"
jumble, confuse, mix upverb
assemble without order or sense
"She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilateverb
make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
"Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
Wiktionary
confuseverb
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
confuseverb
To rout; discomfit.
confuseverb
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
confuseverb
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
confuseverb
To mistake one thing for another.
Etymology: Back formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from confus, from confusus, past participle of confundō.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To CONFUSEverb
Etymology: confusus, Latin.
We may have a clear and distinct idea of the existence of many things, though our ideas of their intimate essences and causes are very confused and obscure. Isaac Watts, Logick.
Confus’d and sadly she at length replies. Alexander Pope, Statius.
ChatGPT
confuse
To confuse is to cause uncertainty, misunderstanding, or difficulty in perception or comprehension. It can also mean to mix up or fail to distinguish between things. This could be as a result of presenting complex or unclear information, or causing someone to be unable to think clearly or understand something accurately.
Webster Dictionary
Confuseadjective
mixed; confounded
Confuseverb
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
Confuseverb
to perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession
Etymology: [F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of confundere. See Confound.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Confuse
kon-fūz′, v.t. to pour or mix together so that things cannot be distinguished: to throw into disorder: to perplex.—v.i. to be confused.—adj. Confused′, perplexed: disordered.—adv. Confus′edly, in a confused manner: disorderly.—ns. Confus′edness, state of being confused: disorder; Confū′sion, the state of being confused: disorder: shame: overthrow: perplexity: embarrassment: turmoil.—adj. Confū′sive. [A doublet of Confound.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'confuse' in Verbs Frequency: #953
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The numerical value of confuse in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confuse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of confuse in a Sentence
We're going to get to know the cultures of all the people that we serve to make sure we had, we never make a mistake and confuse someone's culture from behavior that's considered criminal in some way, shape or form, we need to understand the people that we police and the communities that we police. So we never have any unintended consequences.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
AiR:
Whatever be the method we use, what we truly are we must not confuse. Not the ego, the body nor the mind. We are the divine energy, this truth we must find.
He's soft-spoken and sometimes people confuse soft-spokenness with not being strong enough, ben Carson has learned that sometimes soft-spokenness is not enough.
The people in our communities are not desensitized to violence, every incidence of violence potentially destroys families, and we can not confuse people's perseverance and willingness to survive as tolerance or complacency.
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- أربكArabic
- смущавам, обърквам, размесвамBulgarian
- zaměnit, zmást, spléstCzech
- forlegenhed, forvirre, forveksleDanish
- verwechseln, vermischen, verwirren, konfuse, VerlegenheitGerman
- σαστίζω, μπερδεύω, συγχέω, [[προκαλώ]] [[αμηχανία]]Greek
- konfuziEsperanto
- confundir, mezclar, confundirseSpanish
- sekoittaa, erehtyä, hämätäFinnish
- confondreFrench
- cuir tro-chèileScottish Gaelic
- בלבלHebrew
- összekeverHungarian
- 混同, 混乱Japanese
- dooreenhalen, verbijsteren, in de war brengen, verwarrenDutch
- blande, forlegenhet, forveksle, forvirreNorwegian
- pomylićPolish
- envergonhar, confundir, misturarPortuguese
- încurcaRomanian
- путать, смешивать, смущатьRussian
- blanda, förväxla, blanda ihopSwedish
- குழப்பTamil
- karıştırmakTurkish
- плутатиUkrainian
- 迷惑Chinese
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