confuse

Back formation from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfjuːz/

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• Rhymes: -uːz

confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
4. (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
6. (intransitive) To be confused.

• flummox
• mistake
• See also Thesaurus:confuse

• confused
• confusing
• confusion

• discombobulate

• “confuse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “confuse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fyz/

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confuse

1. feminine singular of confus

• IPA^(key): /konˈfu.ze/
• Rhymes: -uze
• Hyphenation: con‧fù‧se

confuse f pl

1. feminine plural of confuso

confuse f pl

1. feminine plural of confuso

confuse

1. third-person singular past historic of confondere

cōnfūse

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnfūsus

• “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.