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con·fuse
 confuse
- pronunciation:
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
confused, confuses, confusing |
| definition 1: |
to combine in a disordered, unclear way; fail to distinguish between or among.
I called her by the wrong name because I confused her with another woman that I know from work.He confused gratitude with love.- synonyms:
- confound, mix, mix up
- antonyms:
- differentiate
- similar words:
- blur, dizzy, jumble, lump together, mistake, muddle, scramble
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| definition 2: |
to make obscure or indistinct.
His irrelevant objections merely confused the issue.- synonyms:
- befog, blur, muddy, obfuscate, obscure
- antonyms:
- clarify, elucidate, illuminate, simplify
- similar words:
- becloud, fog, involve, jumble, perplex
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| definition 3: |
to mislead or bewilder.
These badly written instructions have confused me completely.As she gets more elderly, loud noises and bright lights increasingly confuse her.
- synonyms:
- addle, befuddle, bewilder, daze, discombobulate, nonplus
- antonyms:
- enlighten
- similar words:
- baffle, befog, bother, buffalo, confound, disconcert, dumbfound, evade, fluster, fog, fuddle, mislead, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, pother, puzzle, stun, stupefy, throw
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| related words: |
astonish, astound, bedazzle, complicate, disorder, displace, embarrass, entangle, frustrate, mangle, mess, nonplus, pose, ruffle, snarl, stick, trip, vex |
| derivations: |
confusing (adj.), confusedly (adv.), confusedness (n.) |
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