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CONFUSE v. 3 definitions
e distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
CONFUSEDLY adv.
In a confused manner.
CONFUSEDNESS n.
A state of confusion. Norris.
CONFUSELY adv.
Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]
INCONFUSED a.
Not confused; distinct. [Obs.]
ABASH v.
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.
ADDLE a.
g lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.
ASHAMED a.
Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed pers…
AUMERY n.
A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.
AUROCHS n.
haps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Cæsar, with which it has often been confused.
BABBLE n.
Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.
BABEL n.
Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.
BABYLONISH n.
Confused; Babel-like.
BEFOG v.
Hence: To confuse; to mystify.
BEFUDDLE v.
To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
BEMUDDLE v.
To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
BEWILDER v.
nfusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.
BLANK v.
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Shak.
BLEND v.
he separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.
BLUNDER v.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.
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