verb
- Mistake one thing for another.
- usage: "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- synonyms: confound
- Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
- usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- Cause to feel embarrassment.
- usage: "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- synonyms: flurry, disconcert, put off
- Assemble without order or sense.
- usage: "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.
- usage: "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- synonyms: blur, obscure, obnubilate
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