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confuse
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Word definitions for confuse in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES confuse/cloud/muddy the issue (= make an issue more difficult to understand or deal with than it needs to be ) ▪ You must not let your feelings cloud the issue. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB about ▪ Some are also ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" [syn: confound ] be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, in literal sense "mix or mingle things so as to render the elements indistinguishable;" attested from mid-18c. in active, figurative sense of "discomfit in mind or feeling;" not in general use until 19c., taking over senses formerly belonging to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder. 2 (context obsolete English) To rout; discomfit. 3 To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder. 4 To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass. 5 To mistake one thing for another.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confuse \Con*fuse"\, a. [F. confus, L. confusus, p. p. of confundere. See Confound .] Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] --Baret.
Usage examples of confuse.
Confused shouts came from abovestairs in the inn, and the pounding of running feet.
Any one of the crew could have done it, of course but Allo had already come off as too aggressive, and TamTam would probably confuse the poor Earthie, and as for Calia, she had a pretty strong distaste for the Earthborn, which might make things difficult.
There were confused shouts and a long scream of pain from the tangle of amphicyons and armed men.
In this way it shows that to confuse the two together is impossible, and that the Anglican can be as little said to tend to the Roman, as the Roman to the Anglican.
Once again, he will complain against psychological determinism in literature, and will remind us not to confuse his novel, or antinovel, with simple leisure reading.
In 1811 Avogadro, in answer to the confusing problems of combining chemical weights, invented the molecule.
It was a great confusing huddle of men, and the ball was no bigger than a walnut, so the spectators could hardly tell what was happening until a ballcarrier broke free to run.
But Nadar had decreed that both balloons should depart together, and had installed an extra windlass of rope for that purpose, reasoning that a dual launch would confuse and make even more ineffectual the rifle fire from the enemy lines.
Mansion, Ross Barnett was, incredibly, continuing the totally confused comic opera of rebellion.
Confused, she turned to where Baumer had been, but he had moved away to one side, while one of the four had moved between Gina and the passage, blocking her retreat.
If there were no hives in the vicinity, these bees soon became confused and dispirited.
Leonato is half convinced, Benedick is puzzled and confused, and Hero faints.
He had not noticed Bernardine at first, and when he saw her, he became somewhat confused.
Romilly was too tired and confused even to know for certain what Betta meant.
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne of Bielefeld in Germany--not to be confused with Hippo in my novel--is an independently financed, undermanned body of sane, well-qualified people who struggle to expose the misdeeds of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in its dealings with the Third World.