confuse

Meaning

Verb

• to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder ; to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
• To mix up, muddle up ; to mistake .
• To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
• To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
• To rout; discomfit.
• To be confused.

Related

Similar words

• flummox
• mistake

Origin

• Back formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundō.