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Adjective confusing has 2 senses
- confusing - causing confusion or disorientation; "a confusing jumble of road signs"; "being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child"
Antonyms: orienting, orientating (indirect, via disorienting)
- confusing, perplexing, puzzling - lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
Antonym: clear (indirect, via unclear)
Verb confuse has 6 senses
- confuse, confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
--1 is one way to mistake, misidentify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off - cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
--3 is one way to embarrass, abash
Sample sentences:
The bad news will confuse him
The good news will confuse her
The performance is likely to confuse Sue
- jumble, confuse, mix up - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
--4 is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- confuse - make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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