confuse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back formation from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kənˈfjuːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːz
Verb
[edit]confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish.
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
- (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
- (intransitive) To be confused.
Synonyms
[edit]- flummox
- mistake
- See also Thesaurus:confuse
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder somebody
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to mix up / muddle up one thing with another; to mistake one thing for another
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to mix thoroughly
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to embarrass
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to rout — see rout
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “confuse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “confuse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]confuse
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Participle
[edit]confuse f pl
Adjective
[edit]confuse f pl
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]confuse
- third-person singular past historic of confondere
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]cōnfūse
References
[edit]- “confuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- confuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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