Dictionary Entry
confuse
confuse is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Mixed; confounded. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Mixed; confounded.
- 2transitive verb
To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
- 3transitive verb
To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
- 4verb
mistake one thing for another
"you are confusing me with the other candidate"
"I mistook her for the secretary"
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- 5verb
make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
"Her remarks confused the debate"
"Their words obnubilate their intentions"
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- 6verb
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
"These questions confuse even the experts"
"This question completely threw me"
- 7verb
assemble without order or sense
"She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
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- 8verb
cause to feel embarrassment
"The constant attention of the young man confused her"
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