Confuse \Con*fuse"\, a. [F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of
confundere. See Confound.]
Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] --Baret.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Confuse \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.
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A universal hubbub wild
Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
--Milton.
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2. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose
self-possession.
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Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse
A life that leads melodious days. --Tennyson.
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Confused and sadly she at length replied. --Pope.
Syn: To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound;
obscure; distract. See Abash.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
confuse
v 1: mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with
the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
[syn: confound]
2: 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" [syn: throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle,
bedevil, confound, discombobulate]
3: cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the
young man confused her" [syn: flurry, disconcert, put
off]
4: assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when
she is supposed to write a sentence" [syn: jumble, mix
up]
5: make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms
only confuse"
6: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused
the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
[syn: blur, obscure, obnubilate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "confuse":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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