Definition of Confuse

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Confuse

Mixed; confounded.

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.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

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Confuse Quotations

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

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.
Harry S. Truman

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach

Confuse Translations

confuse in Afrikaans is verwar
confuse in Danish is forvirre
confuse in Dutch is dooreenhalen, van zijn stuk brengen
confuse in French is permuter, confondre
confuse in German is verwechseln
confuse in Italian is scambiare
confuse in Latin is turbo, confundo
confuse in Portuguese is confunda
confuse in Spanish is trastrocar, equivocar

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