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What is the verb for confusion?

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confuse
  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.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “His way of thinking defied logic and would completely confuse me.”
      “A lot of data in this report is superfluous and only serves to confuse the facts.”
      “Some people confuse Scooby Doo with Marmaduke.”
confusticate
  1. (transitive, informal, chiefly US) To confuse, confound, or perplex.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I'm of the opinion that the angled bridges were positioned like that with three degrees tilt of rose and bars, to confusticate us all.”
      “While Lord Strange's Men are lured into a strange sleep, the real Puck decides not to return with his King and Queen, but to remain among the mortals to confusticate and vex them.”
      “This mess will not only clog and confusticate America's criminal courts for years to come but will require legislatures to create sentencing systems less attractive than those we now have. ”
confuddled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confuddle
confused
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confuse
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A significant portion of the data in the report was superfluous and only confused the facts.”
      “Many people confused Scooby Doo with Marmaduke.”
      “The tiny plate given to him at the seafood buffet confused Homer, and he rushed to grab the entire steam tray instead.”
confuzzle
  1. (slang, neologism) To confuse or puzzle.
  2. Synonyms:
confuzzling
  1. present participle of confuzzle
  2. Synonyms:
confusing
confuddle
  1. (informal, transitive) To confuse thoroughly.
confusticates
confuzzles
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuzzle
  2. Synonyms:
confuses
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuse
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The section confuses issues of legal responsibility or liability and moral culpability.”
      “The mind of your average 15-year-old boy is a place that amazes, confuses, confounds and surprises.”
      “When someone comes along with first-hand knowledge of the topic in hand it just confuses everyone.”
confuseth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuse
confusticated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confusticate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The information contained herein has been thoroughly encrypted and confusticated.”
      “The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years.”
      “It will take me a long time to better my confusticated style.”
confuzzled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confuzzle
  2. Synonyms:
confusticating
confuddling
  1. present participle of confuddle
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