confuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from confused, from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō.
Inflected forms:
form: confuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.
"What confuses me is how other insurance companies knew about it," said Zhang, a 26-year-old government employee from Shandong.
President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal.
gloss: To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when talking about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. […] “They’re saying he got confused. That he was talking about something else. That he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiples times in that scenario,” the former South Carolina governor added.
gloss: To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dense fog utterly confused traffic on the highway.
gloss: To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
gloss: To rout; discomfit.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To be confused.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: flummox
mistake
addle
baffle
vex
lose
embroil
stick
stump
baffound
bamboozle
bedevil
befuddle
throw
bemud
bemuse
bewilder
bumfuzzle
complicate
confound
confuddle
confuse
confuzzle
dazzle
discombobulate
disconcert
blind
dumbfound
entangle
ferhoodle
flabagast
flabbergast
flabbergaster
flurry
fluster
fuddle
jumble
knot
mix up
muddle
muddy
ravel
perplex
puzzle
Antonyms: clarify
distinguish
enlighten
inspire
judicate
mediate
organize
organise
reconcile
stabilize
Related words: confused
confusing
confusion
discombobulate
blur
conflate
leave speechless
throw somebody for a loop
throw somebody a curve
be at a loss for words
to get turned around
get one's wires crossed
have one's wires crossed
surprise
surprising
Derived words: confuddle
confusability
confusable
confusement
confuser
confusible
confusopoly
confuzzle
coonfuse
deconfuse
reconfuse
unconfuse
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَرْبَكَ
roman: ʔarbaka
lang: Arabic
word: حَيَّرَ
roman: ḥayyara
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çaşdırmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çaş-baş etmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: karıxdırmaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: обърквам
roman: obǎrkvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: смущавам
roman: smuštavam
lang: Catalan
word: confondre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 讓……困惑 /让……困惑
roman: ràng ... kùnhuò
lang: Czech
word: zmást
lang: Danish
word: forvirre
lang: Dutch
word: verwarren
lang: Dutch
word: in de war brengen
lang: Dutch
word: verbijsteren
lang: Esperanto
word: konfuzi
lang: Finnish
word: sekoittaa
lang: Finnish
word: saada ymmälleen
lang: Finnish
word: hämätä
lang: French
word: rendre perplexe
lang: French
word: confondre
lang: French
word: confuser
lang: French
word: confusionner
lang: Georgian
word: დაბნევა
roman: dabneva
lang: German
word: verwirren
lang: German
word: konfundieren
lang: Greek
word: μπερδεύω
roman: berdévo
lang: Greek
word: σαστίζω
roman: sastízo
lang: Hebrew
word: בלבל
roman: bilbel
lang: Hungarian
word: összezavar
lang: Italian
word: confondere
lang: Japanese
word: 混乱させる
roman: konran saseru
lang: Korean
word: 혼란시키다
roman: hollansikida
lang: Macedonian
word: буни
roman: buni
lang: Māori
word: whakapōraru
lang: Māori
word: whakapōkīkī
lang: Norwegian
word: forvirre
lang: Old English
word: dwilman
lang: Polish
word: zmieszać
lang: Portuguese
word: confundir
lang: Quechua
word: arwiy
lang: Romanian
word: încurca
lang: Russian
word: пу́тать
roman: pútatʹ
lang: Russian
word: запу́тать
roman: zapútatʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuir tro-chèile
lang: Sikkimese
word: དཀྲུགས
roman: dkrugs
lang: Spanish
word: confundir
lang: Spanish
word: barahustar
lang: Spanish
word: barajustar
lang: Spanish
word: baraustar
lang: Swedish
word: förvirra
lang: Swedish
word: förväxla
lang: Yiddish
word: צעמישן
roman: tsemishn