Confuse meaning
To confuse is to make someone bewildered or unable to understand, or to mistake one thing for something else.
When you explain something in a way that makes no sense, this is an example of a time when you confuse.
When you make a situation more complicated than it needs to be, this is an example of a time when you confuse a situation.
When you think that a black shirt looks blue, this is an example of a time when you confuse black for blue.
verb
To make something unclear or incomprehensible.
A new tax code that only confuses.
verb
To mix up; jumble together; put into disorder.
verb
To mix up mentally.
- To bewilder; perplex.
- To embarrass; disconcert; abash.
- To fail to distinguish between; mistake the identity of.
verb
Origin of confuse
- Middle English confusen from Old French confus perplexed from Latin cōnfūsus past participle of cōnfundere to mix together confound
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Back formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō.
From Wiktionary