confuse
con-fuse · verb
Definitions
verb
- 1.
To make someone uncertain or unable to understand something.
- 2.
To mistake one person or thing for another.
- 3.
To make something unclear or more complicated.
Phrases & expressions
- •confuse the issue — to make something harder to understand
- •confuse A with B — to mistake one thing for another
Related words
Etymology
From Latin confundere ("to pour together, mix, confuse"), from con- ("together") + fundere ("to pour"). The original sense was of mixing things together so they become indistinguishable.