verb [VN]
1 to make sb unable to think clearly or understand sth:
They confused me with conflicting accounts of what happened.
2 ~ A and / with B to think wrongly that sb/sth is sb/sth else
SYNMIXUP:
People often confuse me and my twin sister. * Be careful not to confuse quantity with quality.
3 to make a subject more difficult to understand:
His comments only served to confuse the issue further.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for confuse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does confuse appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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