CONFUSE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of confuse in English confuseverb [ T ] uk /kənˈfjuːz/ us /kənˈfjuːz/ Add to word list Add to word list B2 to mix up someone's mind or ideas, or to make something difficult to understand: You're confusing him! Tell him slowly and one thing at a time. Stop confusing the issue (= making the problem unnecessarily difficult)! B2 to mix up two separate things or people in your mind, imagining that they are one: You're confusing me with my sister - she's the singer. It's easy to confuse his films, because he tends to use the same actors.

• I think you're confusing him with someone else.
• If you give them too much detail, you'll just confuse them.
• We were confused by the fact that the signs pointed in opposite directions.
• Stop confusing me with all those figures!
• The instructions are designed to confuse people.

Puzzle and confuse

• addle
• baffle
• bedazzle
• befuddle
• bemuse
• disorientate
• do someone's head in idiom
• flummox
• fox
• foxed
• fuddle
• loop
• puzzle
• ravel
• search
• throw
• throw (someone) a curve (ball)/curveball idiom
• throw someone off balance idiom
• tie
• tie someone (up) in knots idiom

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Making mistakes (Definition of confuse from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

confuse | American Dictionary

confuseverb [ T ] us /kənˈfjuz/ Add to word list Add to word list to cause someone to feel uncertain or unclear, or to make something difficult to understand: You’re confusing me – please repeat the directions more slowly. Someone who confuses one thing with another thinks the first thing is the second: You’re confusing me with my sister – she’s the one who moved to Colorado.

confusable

adjective, noun [ C ] us/kənˈfju·zə·bəl/

confused

adjective us /kənˈfjuzd/ Her confused reaction is understandable.

confusing

adjective us /kənˈfju·zɪŋ/ The directions were confusing, and I got lost. (Definition of confuse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of confuse

confuse As it develops, especially in the second half of the century, the picture becomes increasingly variegated, scrambled, and confused. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, the absence of evidence of any positive effects for an experimental variable should not be confused with evidence of absence of such effects. From the Cambridge English Corpus He is soon, however, hopelessly confused in attempts to distinguish between capital to the individual and capital to the nation. From the Cambridge English Corpus The confinement rules partition the set of types and prevent types belonging to different partition from being confused with one another. From the Cambridge English Corpus Relatively few demonstrated any informed awareness of the raft of policies outlined above and some that professed understanding were in reality confused or mistaken. From the Cambridge English Corpus Note that occurrences of holes will be filled by reduction contexts and are not to be confused with redex holes. From the Cambridge English Corpus He too insisted that law should not be confused with custom. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, they were formulated in 1548, before diversity of religion had seriously fragmented policy and confused traditional conflicts. From the Cambridge English Corpus Readers may also find the opening section on geography extremely dry, and the multitude of ethnic groups confusing. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nevertheless, three concepts still appear to be confused, ill-defined, or interchangeable in the literature: reflective practice, reflection, and the reflective practitioner. From the Cambridge English Corpus Not to be confused with the hardware notion of an interrupt, which is more akin to an asynchronous subroutine call. From the Cambridge English Corpus In previous formulations of projection strictness analysis, the two forms of demand were confused (literally) by the lifting trick. From the Cambridge English Corpus Is infant bilingual acquisition fundamentally similar to monolingual acquisition or is it delayed and confused ? From the Cambridge English Corpus Removing it is not to be confused with cleaning a painting from subsequent dirt - noise was there in the original creation of the work. From the Cambridge English Corpus Truth and proof are simply different things, and confusing them leads to epistemic perdition. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of confuse These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of confuse? What is the pronunciation of confusable?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 使困惑，使糊塗, 使混亂, 將…混同，將…混淆… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 使困惑，使糊涂, 使混乱, 将…混同，将…混淆… See more in Spanish confundir, complicar… See more in Portuguese confundir, complicar… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian गोंधळून टाकणे, गोंधळ होणे… See more ～を混乱させる, （人、物、こと）を混同する, 混乱（こんらん）させる… See more şaşırtmak, kafası karışmak, birini biriyle karıştırmak… See more rendre perplexe, confondre, embrouiller… See more confondre… See more verwarren… See more ஒருவரின் மனதை அல்லது யோசனைகளை ஒன்றிணைக்க, அல்லது புரிந்து கொள்ள கடினமான ஒன்றை உருவாக்க, உங்கள் மனதில் இரண்டு தனித்தனி விஷயங்களை அல்லது நபர்களை ஒன்றிணைக்க… See more भ्रमित करना, भ्रमित होना… See more મૂંઝવણ, બે લોકો અથવા વસ્તુઓ વિશે મૂંઝવણમાં હોવું… See more forvirre, forveksle… See more trassla till, förväxla, förvirra… See more mengelirukan, keliru… See more in Unordnung bringen, verwechseln, verwirren… See more forvirre, forveksle, skape forvirring… See more الجھانا, گڈمڈ کرنا, الجھن پیدا ہونا… See more збити, зірвати, змішувати… See more కంగారు పెట్టుట /గందరగోళానికి గురి చేయు, ఒకరి మనస్సును /ఆలోచనలను గందరగోళానికి గురి చేయడం / గజిబిజి చేయడం లేదా అర్థం చేసుకోవడం కష్టతరం చేయడం., పొరపాటు పడు… See more বিভ্রান্ত করা, গুলিয়ে ফেলা বা দেওয়া, দুটো আলাদা বস্তু বা মানুষকে এক ভেবে গুলিয়ে ফেলা… See more narušit, zamotat, (s)plést (si)… See more merusak, mengacaukan, membingungkan… See more ผสมปนเปกัน, สับสน, ทำให้สับสน… See more làm lộn xộn, nhầm lẫn, làm ai lúng túng… See more dezorientować, mylić, pomieszać… See more 혼란시키다, 혼동하다… See more confondere, scompigliare… See more Need a translator?

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