Definition of confuse in English:

confuse

verb kənˈfjuːzkənˈfjuz

[with object]

1Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.
past and present blurred together, confusing her still further
Example sentencesExamples
- She is then baffled because he is confused by other Big Words.
- This morning confused her and threw her off entirely, nothing quite added up.
- It more than confused him, it bewildered him completely.
- I have no idea, but I'm just confused as to whether or not I should avoid that person from now on.
- What really confuses me is why people buy cell phone covers that flash.
- He was avoiding the subject, and was using characters he'd played to distract and confuse her.
- One thing that does continually confuse me though is people who get married more than once.
- They can be extremely effective at distracting and confusing someone on the other side of an argument.
- He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us.
- I was confused for a second before I remembered he had thrown it so haphazardly into the backseat.
- Most straight people confuse me and I really am unable to comprehend them.
- As a progressive and an atheist, Christians confuse me as much as the next person.
- Then his eyes fell on the two things on his person that confused him the most.
- When I was young I thought everyone knew so it confused me when people confided in me, like it was some great secret, that ‘everything happens for a reason’.
- When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it.
- What still confuses me though is why the people who protest about it every year insist on staying there.
- If his period of confinement have been very long, the prospect of release bewilders and confuses him.
- It confuses me that people think this is terrible.
- Many fantasy epics give us colorful enemies with distinct personalities to confuse us.
- It confused her, but then people usually confused her.
Synonyms
bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking
informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fox, make someone scratch their head, floor, fog
North American informal buffalo
archaic wilder, gravel, maze, cause to be at a stand, distract, pose
rare obfuscate
bewildering, baffling, difficult (to understand), unclear, perplexing, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, disconcerting
ambiguous, misleading, inconsistent, contradictory
unaccountable, inexplicable, impenetrable, unfathomable, above one's head, beyond one
complex, complicated, involved, intricate, convoluted, labyrinthine, Byzantine
archaic wildering
1. 1.1 Make (something) more complex or less easy to understand.
  the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue
  Example sentencesExamples
  God did not destroy the tower they were building; rather, God confused their language, and they were scattered.
  It is very easy to confuse questions as to what is the jurisdiction of a court and how that jurisdiction should be exercised.
  His increasingly complex relationship with her only confuses the plot and detracts from the central thread.
  But complexity confuses a media that needs a simple plot.
  It is at his home that she meets this woman, who is to complicate and confuse other relationships in the book, and finally draw in on all of them a terrifying wave of scandal.
  Thus any attempts to analyse the flux through the pathway are confused by the complications of the different pools.
  And you confused it with complexity, which is not a part of the argument at all.
  You may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right.
  The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it.
  He has so confused the issue we would have to be complete idiots to imagine that we would get anything useful out of halting legal action.
  Campaigners confuse the issue with complex legal and medical argument.
  Look closely at the editorial: don't they completely avoid and try to confuse the point?
  When God decided to beget a divine, yet human son who would occupy a rung above the angels, he changed, complicated and irrevocably confused the hierarchy.
  Synonyms
  complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make complex, make (more) difficult, blur, obscure, make unclear, cloud, obfuscate
  archaic embroil
2. 1.2 Identify wrongly; mistake.
  a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack
  purchasers might confuse the two products
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is at this point that the issue of moral values tends to be identified, or confused with, religion.
  The chances of you finding stuff on your credit file that confuses you with other people, places you at addresses you left years ago, shows you owing money you don't and all manner of other sins you haven't committed is alarmingly high.
  The authors confuse their contempt of the opposition with an accurate apprehension of the opposition.
  It is easy to confuse the apples of reporting with the oranges of privilege.
  It is important that reserves and production should not be confused.
  It's easy to confuse this prudent conservatism with adherence to principle, but that would be a mistake.
  It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms.
  She also said she was offended when people confused her with her neurotic character.
  People don't usually forget our names, or get them wrong, or confuse us with other people.
  It is easy to confuse greatness in a specialized field with skill in writing about it.
  It's easy to confuse protagonists with their authors.
  Several other production problems can be confused with wheat streak, especially in the early stages of symptom development.
  We won't confuse our having made mistakes with our having no right to be here.
  First, no one with half a brain could possibly confuse the two products.
  However, it would be a mistake to confuse sensible with safe.
  A national identity should not be confused with individual or personal characteristics.
  I've already blogged on how easily identity gets confused in systems that don't rely on turning us all into numbers after all: my namesake was refused a credit card.
  The humor is uncomfortable on purpose, but it's very easy to confuse it with a humor that's unsure and amateur.
  I think I'm separate enough from this character where people aren't going to confuse us.
  It's very easy to confuse the two which is why some people may tell you that I speak in a Long Island tongue.
  Synonyms
  mix up, muddle up, confound
  misinterpret as, mistake for, take for

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'rout, bring to ruin'): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere 'mingle together' (see confound). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th century when it began to replace confound.

The early meanings of confuse were ‘rout’ and ‘bring to ruin’. The word comes via French from Latin confundere ‘mingle together, mix up’. Confound (Middle English) comes from the same word.

Rhymes

abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse

Definition of confuse in US English:

confuse

verbkənˈfjuzkənˈfyo͞oz

[with object]

1Cause (someone) to become bewildered or perplexed.
past and present blurred together, confusing her still further
Example sentencesExamples
- They can be extremely effective at distracting and confusing someone on the other side of an argument.
- As a progressive and an atheist, Christians confuse me as much as the next person.
- It confuses me that people think this is terrible.
- He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us.
- When I was young I thought everyone knew so it confused me when people confided in me, like it was some great secret, that ‘everything happens for a reason’.
- He was avoiding the subject, and was using characters he'd played to distract and confuse her.
- It confused her, but then people usually confused her.
- One thing that does continually confuse me though is people who get married more than once.
- I have no idea, but I'm just confused as to whether or not I should avoid that person from now on.
- I was confused for a second before I remembered he had thrown it so haphazardly into the backseat.
- What still confuses me though is why the people who protest about it every year insist on staying there.
- What really confuses me is why people buy cell phone covers that flash.
- This morning confused her and threw her off entirely, nothing quite added up.
- When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it.
- Then his eyes fell on the two things on his person that confused him the most.
- Most straight people confuse me and I really am unable to comprehend them.
- If his period of confinement have been very long, the prospect of release bewilders and confuses him.
- She is then baffled because he is confused by other Big Words.
- Many fantasy epics give us colorful enemies with distinct personalities to confuse us.
- It more than confused him, it bewildered him completely.
Synonyms
bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking
bewildering, baffling, difficult, difficult to understand, unclear, perplexing, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, disconcerting
1. 1.1 Make (something) more complex or less easy to understand.
  the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has so confused the issue we would have to be complete idiots to imagine that we would get anything useful out of halting legal action.
  But complexity confuses a media that needs a simple plot.
  Look closely at the editorial: don't they completely avoid and try to confuse the point?
  It is at his home that she meets this woman, who is to complicate and confuse other relationships in the book, and finally draw in on all of them a terrifying wave of scandal.
  When God decided to beget a divine, yet human son who would occupy a rung above the angels, he changed, complicated and irrevocably confused the hierarchy.
  And you confused it with complexity, which is not a part of the argument at all.
  Campaigners confuse the issue with complex legal and medical argument.
  The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it.
  God did not destroy the tower they were building; rather, God confused their language, and they were scattered.
  You may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right.
  It is very easy to confuse questions as to what is the jurisdiction of a court and how that jurisdiction should be exercised.
  Thus any attempts to analyse the flux through the pathway are confused by the complications of the different pools.
  His increasingly complex relationship with her only confuses the plot and detracts from the central thread.
  Synonyms
  complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make complex, make difficult, make more difficult, blur, obscure, make unclear, cloud, obfuscate
2. 1.2 Identify wrongly; mistake.
  a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack
  purchasers might confuse the two products
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, it would be a mistake to confuse sensible with safe.
  A national identity should not be confused with individual or personal characteristics.
  It is important that reserves and production should not be confused.
  We won't confuse our having made mistakes with our having no right to be here.
  She also said she was offended when people confused her with her neurotic character.
  It is easy to confuse greatness in a specialized field with skill in writing about it.
  It's very easy to confuse the two which is why some people may tell you that I speak in a Long Island tongue.
  First, no one with half a brain could possibly confuse the two products.
  The authors confuse their contempt of the opposition with an accurate apprehension of the opposition.
  It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms.
  It is easy to confuse the apples of reporting with the oranges of privilege.
  The humor is uncomfortable on purpose, but it's very easy to confuse it with a humor that's unsure and amateur.
  It's easy to confuse this prudent conservatism with adherence to principle, but that would be a mistake.
  I think I'm separate enough from this character where people aren't going to confuse us.
  I've already blogged on how easily identity gets confused in systems that don't rely on turning us all into numbers after all: my namesake was refused a credit card.
  It is at this point that the issue of moral values tends to be identified, or confused with, religion.
  It's easy to confuse protagonists with their authors.
  People don't usually forget our names, or get them wrong, or confuse us with other people.
  The chances of you finding stuff on your credit file that confuses you with other people, places you at addresses you left years ago, shows you owing money you don't and all manner of other sins you haven't committed is alarmingly high.
  Several other production problems can be confused with wheat streak, especially in the early stages of symptom development.
  Synonyms
  mix up, muddle up, confound

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘rout, bring to ruin’): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere ‘mingle together’ (see confound). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th century when it began to replace confound.

单词	confuse
释义	Definition of confuse in English: confuse verb kənˈfjuːzkənˈfjuz [with object] 1Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed. past and present blurred together, confusing her still further Example sentencesExamples She is then baffled because he is confused by other Big Words. This morning confused her and threw her off entirely, nothing quite added up. It more than confused him, it bewildered him completely. I have no idea, but I'm just confused as to whether or not I should avoid that person from now on. What really confuses me is why people buy cell phone covers that flash. He was avoiding the subject, and was using characters he'd played to distract and confuse her. One thing that does continually confuse me though is people who get married more than once. They can be extremely effective at distracting and confusing someone on the other side of an argument. He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us. I was confused for a second before I remembered he had thrown it so haphazardly into the backseat. Most straight people confuse me and I really am unable to comprehend them. As a progressive and an atheist, Christians confuse me as much as the next person. Then his eyes fell on the two things on his person that confused him the most. When I was young I thought everyone knew so it confused me when people confided in me, like it was some great secret, that ‘everything happens for a reason’. When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it. What still confuses me though is why the people who protest about it every year insist on staying there. If his period of confinement have been very long, the prospect of release bewilders and confuses him. It confuses me that people think this is terrible. Many fantasy epics give us colorful enemies with distinct personalities to confuse us. It confused her, but then people usually confused her. Synonyms bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fox, make someone scratch their head, floor, fog North American informal buffalo archaic wilder, gravel, maze, cause to be at a stand, distract, pose rare obfuscate bewildering, baffling, difficult (to understand), unclear, perplexing, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, disconcerting ambiguous, misleading, inconsistent, contradictory unaccountable, inexplicable, impenetrable, unfathomable, above one's head, beyond one complex, complicated, involved, intricate, convoluted, labyrinthine, Byzantine archaic wildering 1.1 Make (something) more complex or less easy to understand. the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue Example sentencesExamples God did not destroy the tower they were building; rather, God confused their language, and they were scattered. It is very easy to confuse questions as to what is the jurisdiction of a court and how that jurisdiction should be exercised. His increasingly complex relationship with her only confuses the plot and detracts from the central thread. But complexity confuses a media that needs a simple plot. It is at his home that she meets this woman, who is to complicate and confuse other relationships in the book, and finally draw in on all of them a terrifying wave of scandal. Thus any attempts to analyse the flux through the pathway are confused by the complications of the different pools. And you confused it with complexity, which is not a part of the argument at all. You may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right. The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it. He has so confused the issue we would have to be complete idiots to imagine that we would get anything useful out of halting legal action. Campaigners confuse the issue with complex legal and medical argument. Look closely at the editorial: don't they completely avoid and try to confuse the point? When God decided to beget a divine, yet human son who would occupy a rung above the angels, he changed, complicated and irrevocably confused the hierarchy. Synonyms complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make complex, make (more) difficult, blur, obscure, make unclear, cloud, obfuscate archaic embroil 1.2 Identify wrongly; mistake. a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack purchasers might confuse the two products Example sentencesExamples It is at this point that the issue of moral values tends to be identified, or confused with, religion. The chances of you finding stuff on your credit file that confuses you with other people, places you at addresses you left years ago, shows you owing money you don't and all manner of other sins you haven't committed is alarmingly high. The authors confuse their contempt of the opposition with an accurate apprehension of the opposition. It is easy to confuse the apples of reporting with the oranges of privilege. It is important that reserves and production should not be confused. It's easy to confuse this prudent conservatism with adherence to principle, but that would be a mistake. It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms. She also said she was offended when people confused her with her neurotic character. People don't usually forget our names, or get them wrong, or confuse us with other people. It is easy to confuse greatness in a specialized field with skill in writing about it. It's easy to confuse protagonists with their authors. Several other production problems can be confused with wheat streak, especially in the early stages of symptom development. We won't confuse our having made mistakes with our having no right to be here. First, no one with half a brain could possibly confuse the two products. However, it would be a mistake to confuse sensible with safe. A national identity should not be confused with individual or personal characteristics. I've already blogged on how easily identity gets confused in systems that don't rely on turning us all into numbers after all: my namesake was refused a credit card. The humor is uncomfortable on purpose, but it's very easy to confuse it with a humor that's unsure and amateur. I think I'm separate enough from this character where people aren't going to confuse us. It's very easy to confuse the two which is why some people may tell you that I speak in a Long Island tongue. Synonyms mix up, muddle up, confound misinterpret as, mistake for, take for Origin Middle English (in the sense 'rout, bring to ruin'): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere 'mingle together' (see confound). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th century when it began to replace confound. The early meanings of confuse were ‘rout’ and ‘bring to ruin’. The word comes via French from Latin confundere ‘mingle together, mix up’. Confound (Middle English) comes from the same word. Rhymes abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse Definition of confuse in US English: confuse verbkənˈfjuzkənˈfyo͞oz [with object] 1Cause (someone) to become bewildered or perplexed. past and present blurred together, confusing her still further Example sentencesExamples They can be extremely effective at distracting and confusing someone on the other side of an argument. As a progressive and an atheist, Christians confuse me as much as the next person. It confuses me that people think this is terrible. He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us. When I was young I thought everyone knew so it confused me when people confided in me, like it was some great secret, that ‘everything happens for a reason’. He was avoiding the subject, and was using characters he'd played to distract and confuse her. It confused her, but then people usually confused her. One thing that does continually confuse me though is people who get married more than once. I have no idea, but I'm just confused as to whether or not I should avoid that person from now on. I was confused for a second before I remembered he had thrown it so haphazardly into the backseat. What still confuses me though is why the people who protest about it every year insist on staying there. What really confuses me is why people buy cell phone covers that flash. This morning confused her and threw her off entirely, nothing quite added up. When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it. Then his eyes fell on the two things on his person that confused him the most. Most straight people confuse me and I really am unable to comprehend them. If his period of confinement have been very long, the prospect of release bewilders and confuses him. She is then baffled because he is confused by other Big Words. Many fantasy epics give us colorful enemies with distinct personalities to confuse us. It more than confused him, it bewildered him completely. Synonyms bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking bewildering, baffling, difficult, difficult to understand, unclear, perplexing, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, disconcerting 1.1 Make (something) more complex or less easy to understand. the points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue Example sentencesExamples He has so confused the issue we would have to be complete idiots to imagine that we would get anything useful out of halting legal action. But complexity confuses a media that needs a simple plot. Look closely at the editorial: don't they completely avoid and try to confuse the point? It is at his home that she meets this woman, who is to complicate and confuse other relationships in the book, and finally draw in on all of them a terrifying wave of scandal. When God decided to beget a divine, yet human son who would occupy a rung above the angels, he changed, complicated and irrevocably confused the hierarchy. And you confused it with complexity, which is not a part of the argument at all. Campaigners confuse the issue with complex legal and medical argument. The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it. God did not destroy the tower they were building; rather, God confused their language, and they were scattered. You may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right. It is very easy to confuse questions as to what is the jurisdiction of a court and how that jurisdiction should be exercised. Thus any attempts to analyse the flux through the pathway are confused by the complications of the different pools. His increasingly complex relationship with her only confuses the plot and detracts from the central thread. Synonyms complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make complex, make difficult, make more difficult, blur, obscure, make unclear, cloud, obfuscate 1.2 Identify wrongly; mistake. a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack purchasers might confuse the two products Example sentencesExamples However, it would be a mistake to confuse sensible with safe. A national identity should not be confused with individual or personal characteristics. It is important that reserves and production should not be confused. We won't confuse our having made mistakes with our having no right to be here. She also said she was offended when people confused her with her neurotic character. It is easy to confuse greatness in a specialized field with skill in writing about it. It's very easy to confuse the two which is why some people may tell you that I speak in a Long Island tongue. First, no one with half a brain could possibly confuse the two products. The authors confuse their contempt of the opposition with an accurate apprehension of the opposition. It was the fatal mistake of the medieval church to confuse and confound the two kingdoms. It is easy to confuse the apples of reporting with the oranges of privilege. The humor is uncomfortable on purpose, but it's very easy to confuse it with a humor that's unsure and amateur. It's easy to confuse this prudent conservatism with adherence to principle, but that would be a mistake. I think I'm separate enough from this character where people aren't going to confuse us. I've already blogged on how easily identity gets confused in systems that don't rely on turning us all into numbers after all: my namesake was refused a credit card. It is at this point that the issue of moral values tends to be identified, or confused with, religion. It's easy to confuse protagonists with their authors. People don't usually forget our names, or get them wrong, or confuse us with other people. The chances of you finding stuff on your credit file that confuses you with other people, places you at addresses you left years ago, shows you owing money you don't and all manner of other sins you haven't committed is alarmingly high. Several other production problems can be confused with wheat streak, especially in the early stages of symptom development. Synonyms mix up, muddle up, confound Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘rout, bring to ruin’): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere ‘mingle together’ (see confound). Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th century when it began to replace confound.
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