Confuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off.
  • v. To cause to feel embarrassment.
  • v. To mistake (for another): confused effusiveness with affection.
  • v. To make opaque; blur: "The old labels ... confuse debate instead of clarifying it” ( Christopher Lasch).
  • v. To assemble without order or sense; jumble.
  • v. Archaic To bring to ruination.
  • verb-intransitive. To make something unclear or incomprehensible: a new tax code that only further confuses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  • v. To rout; discomfit.
  • v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  • v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  • v. To mistake one thing for another.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Mixed; confounded.
  • v. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; ; to confuse one's vision.
  • v. To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mingle together, as two or more things, ideas, etc., which are properly separate and distinct; combine without order or clearness; throw together indiscriminately; derange; disorder; jumble.
  • To perplex or derange the mind or ideas of; embarrass; disconcert; bewilder; confound.
  • To fuse together; blend into one.
  • To take one idea or thing for another.
  • To become mixed up; become involved.
  • Mixed; confused: as, “a confuse cry,”
  • Perplexed; confounded; disconcerted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. assemble without order or sense
  • v. make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
  • v. cause to feel embarrassment
  • v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
  • v. mistake one thing for another
  • Verb Form
    confused    confuses    confusing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mistake    misidentify   
    Cross Reference
    abash    discombobulate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mixed    confounded    confound    disconcert    disorder    abash    disarrange    distract    obscure    perplex   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Mahfouz    Meuse    Muse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    frustrate    Embarrass    disturb    frighten    perplex    bizarre    contradictory    excite    chaotic    messy