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confused

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (lb en of a person) unable to think clearly or understand 2 (lb en of a person or animal) disoriented 3 chaotic, jumbled or muddled 4 making no sense; illogical 5 embarrassed v (en-past of: confuse )

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Confused " is a song by Tevin Campbell , released as the seventh single from his debut album T.E.V.I.N. on October 29, 1992.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
confused \confused\ adj. same as confounded ; as, bewildered and confused. Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up. lacking orderly continuity. Syn: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound , as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to ...

Usage examples of confused.

Confused shouts came from abovestairs in the inn, and the pounding of running feet.

There were confused shouts and a long scream of pain from the tangle of amphicyons and armed men.

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.

Perhaps Signore Lante was a bit tipsy and confused this citizen with this legendary Bigfoot he was here to hunt for?

But the birds in the mews where the tame ones were kept were only hunched forms on the blocks, fast asleep, and she felt from them only a confused silence.

With the loss of her blondeness came the fading of her confused alter ego and the revival of her true self.

In that way the Ferrarese school became somewhat complicated with the Bolognese school, and is confused in its history to this day.

She was confused, not only about Chuckles the bonesetter who specialized in gunshot wounds, but the whole of the river parishes.

On September 11, in a fierce, confused fight at Brandywine Creek, only twenty-five miles south of Philadelphia, Washington tried without success to check the advance of a superior enemy force.