usage: mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
2. confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate, be
usage: 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"
3. confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off, embarrass, abash
usage: cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
4. jumble, confuse, mix up, assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
usage: assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
usage: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
usage: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
usage: having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
usage: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"