Usually means: Mix up understanding or clarity.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word confuse:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. confuse: Merriam-Webster
  2. confuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confuse, confuse: Wordnik
  7. confuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confuse: Wiktionary
  9. confuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confuse, confuse: Dictionary.com
  13. confuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Confuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. confuse: Rhymezone
  16. confuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. confuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. confuse: FreeDictionary.org
  19. confuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. confuse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. confuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confuse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confuse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confuse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confuse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See confused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
verb:  (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
verb:  (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
verb:  (intransitive) To be confused.
adjective:  (obsolete) Synonym of confused.

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