Confuse

Quick meaning: Confuse is a verb meaning (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).

Meaning

(transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
2. (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
4. (intransitive) To be confused.
5. (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
6. (obsolete) Synonym of confused.

Example Sentences

The dense fog utterly confused traffic on the highway.

People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish.

The 11. article is ſo confuſe that it is harde to bring it into any certeine numbre of demandes.

It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.

Word Forms

• confuses
• confusing
• confused

Synonyms for confuse

Depending on context, synonyms include flummox, mistake, addle, baffle, lose, embroil.

Antonyms for confuse

Common opposites include clarify, distinguish, enlighten, inspire, judicate, mediate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fuddle, jumble, disconcert.

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