confuse

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
confuse/kənˈfjuːz/
verb
  • 1 make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.
  • 2 make (something) less easy to understand.

    ■ identify wrongly.

– derivatives
confusing adjective,
confusingly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. confus, from L. confusus, past part. of confundere (see confound).
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