If you confuse two things, you are not correctly identifying them. If you confuse heartburn with a heart attack, you might end up at the emergency room instead of in the antacid aisle of the drugstore.
Verb
mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
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make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
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make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
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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"
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assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
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cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
a.
Mixed; confounded.
v. t.
To mix or blend so that things can not be
distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or
obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
v. t.
To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose
self-possession.
Usage Examples
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
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Other Usage ExamplesDon't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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