confuseverb [ T ]
uk/kənˈfjuːz/us/kənˈfjuːz/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.
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- 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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Puzzle and confuse
- addle
- baffle
- bemuse
- bewilder
- blind sb with science idiom
- blur
- cloud
- flummox
- fox
- fuddle
- knock/throw sb for a loop idiom
- mix
- mix sb up
- muddy
- muddy the waters idiom
- puzzle
- throw sb off balance idiom
- tie
- tie sb (up) in knots idiom
- unbalance
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