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What does confuse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word confuse? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  2. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  3. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  4. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  5. To mistake one thing for another.
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It was if he was teasing me with the start of a question, then regressing into mumbo-jumbo just to confuse me.
Crawlways run as straight as dark directional lines, meeting others in mazy routes that confuse even the most observant caver.
You'll never confuse bookkeeping with fun, but today's software can take the edge off of the torture.
Both use terms and dating criteria inconsistently and contain inaccuracies or out-of-date information that will confuse the general reader.
Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen.
He says even anglers who fish specifically for sharks often confuse porbeagles with mako sharks and other species.

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