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Confuse   /kənfjˈuz/   Listen
Confuse

verb
(past & past part. confused; pres. part. confusing)
1.
Mistake one thing for another.  Synonym: confound.  "I mistook her for the secretary"
2.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
3.
Cause to feel embarrassment.  Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off.
4.
Assemble without order or sense.  Synonyms: jumble, mix up.
5.
Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.  Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure.  "Their words obnubilate their intentions"






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"Confuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... emergency nearly every country has, at one time or another, been tempted to confuse the monetary with the fiscal functions of the Treasury. To borrow by the issue of money seems to have a seductive charm hard to resist. Lloyd George established a new precedent for Great Britain by issuing nearly $200,000,000 of Government currency notes, but this was done to provide ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... frequency of non-infectious lymphangitis, the practitioner must not confuse this type with similar lymphatic inflammation occasioned by nail punctures of the foot. It is very embarrassing indeed to make a diagnosis of lymphangitis—expecting that the disturbance will terminate favorably and uneventually—and later to discover a ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

... strangely believed" in any proposition so obviously and palpably absurd, nor did Napoleon delude himself with philanthropy. Gladstone, even in his confession, mixed up policy, speech, motives, and persons, as though he were trying to confuse chiefly himself. ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... religious sanction of polygyny cannot be looked upon as one of its original causes, but when once established it reacted powerfully to reenforce and maintain the institution. How the religious sanction came about we can readily see when we remember that very commonly religions confuse the practice of the nobility with what is noble or commendable morally. The polygynous practices of the nobility, therefore, under certain conditions came to receive the sanction of religion. When this took place polygyny ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood

... church spire, nearly fused away in the gold. The woman moved on, away from him. He had no language with which to speak to her. She was the bright, solid unreality. She would make a noise of words that would confuse him, and her eyes would look at him without seeing him. She was crossing there to the other side. He ...
— The Prussian Officer • D. H. Lawrence


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