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verb

Confuse v. t. (past & past part. confused; pres. part. 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 confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. "A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused."

2.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession. "Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days." "Confused and sadly she at length replied."

Synonyms: To abash; disorder; disarrange; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract. See Abash.

adjective

confused adj.

1.

Same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up.

2.

Lacking orderly continuity.

Synonyms: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected.

3.

Thrown into disorder; as, His workbench held a confused assortment of spare engine parts..

Synonyms: disordered, in disarray, upset.

4.

Having lost one's bearings physically or mentally.

Synonyms: disoriented, lost.

5.

Not marked by fine distinctions. discriminate

Synonyms: indiscriminate.

6.

Causing bafflement and confusion.

Synonyms: bewildering, confusing.

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Etymology of 'Confused'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Confused" Quotes from Famous Books

... it, fled, like the beaver, to the brook for sanctuary. That flaming serpent pursued me. Its breath grew more acrid, more deadly. I coughed convulsively, strangled, stumbled, fell: when I regained my feet, I was dazed, confused. But I retained consciousness enough to know I must keep moving. I must reach the fire's immemorial enemy and enlist the aid of that watery ally to escape it. I took leaps over the ground, but blindly, with no such brilliant ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

... been here six weeks then, and was a stranger. That is why I had no one to help me and was so confused and hurried. As soon as the newcomers were warm, Mr. Stewart told me I had better come over by him and stand up. It was a large room I had to cross, and how I did it before all those strange eyes I never knew. All I ...

— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... so low. She may, however, still keep good company, and say, "nos numeri sumus"— Lady Mary Duncan,(580) Lady Caroline Adair,(581) Lady Betty Gallini(582)—the shopkeepers of next age will be mighty well born. If our genealogies had been so confused four hundred years ago, Norborne Berkeley would have had still more difficulty with his obsolete Barony of Bottelourt, which the House of Lords at last has granted him. I have never attended the hearings, though it has been much the fashion, but nobody cares less ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... funeral rites—"Namu Amida Butsu!" Into the well crib he threw it. Are! Marvellous! Suddenly the house creaked and trembled. From somewhere came swarms of rats. Heigh! Incomprehensible! Iemon wavered. Singling him out they flew and seized him. Sha! Confused he slashed in attempt to drive them off. Lightning blazed around the sword; many phosphorescent lights—in wreaths, double, triple. To the end ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... How vile was man's estate, how void was man Of reason, till I gave him mind and sense. Not that I would upbraid the race of men: I would but show my own benevolence. Eyesight they had, yet nothing saw aright; Ears, and yet heard not; but like forms in dreams, For ages lived a life confused, nor bricks Nor woodwork had to build them sunny homes, But dwelt beneath the ground, as do the tribes Diminutive of ants, in sunless caves. Nor had they signs to mark the season's change, Coming of winter or of flowery spring Or of boon summer; but at random wrought In all things, till I taught ...

— Specimens of Greek Tragedy - Aeschylus and Sophocles • Goldwin Smith

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