- 1to make someone unable to think clearly or understand something They confused me with conflicting accounts of what happened.
- 2confuse A and/with B to think wrongly that someone or something is someone or something else synonym mix somebody/something up (with somebody/something) People often confuse me and my twin sister. Be careful not to confuse quantity with quality.
- 3confuse something to make a subject more difficult to understand His comments only served to confuse the issue further.
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NAmE//kənˈfyuz//
confuse somebodyVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they confuse he / she / it confuses
past simple confused
-ing form confusing
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