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Webster 1913 Edition
Confuse
Con-fuse′
,Adj.
Mixed; confounded.
[Obs.]
Baret.
Con-fuse′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Confused
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Confusing
.] 1.
To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure;
as, to
; to confuse one’s vision. confuse
accountsA universal hubbub wild
Of stunning sounds and voices all
Of stunning sounds and voices all
confused
. Milton.
2.
To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
Nor thou with shadowed hint
A life that leads melodious days.
confuse
A life that leads melodious days.
Tennyson.
Syn. – To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract. See
Abash
. Webster 1828 Edition
Confuse
CONFUSE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.Stunning sounds and voices all confused.
Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise. Isaiah 9.
2.
To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.3.
To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.4.
To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.A sarcastic remark confused the gentleman and he could not proceed in his argument.
Confused and sadly she at length replied.
Definition 2024
confuse
confuse
English
Verb
confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)
- To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
- (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
- To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
- To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
- To mistake one thing for another.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
to mix thoroughly
|
to rout — see rout
to mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder
|
to embarrass
to mistake one thing for another
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See also
Italian
Verb
confuse f pl
- feminine plural of confuso
Adjective
confuse f pl
- feminine plural of confuso
Verb
confuse
- third-person singular past historic of confondere
Latin
Participle
cōnfūse
- vocative masculine singular of cōnfūsus
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “confuse”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.