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单词 confusticate
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Definition of confusticate in English:

confusticate

verb kɒnˈfʌstɪkeɪtˌkɑnˈfəstəkeɪt
[with object]informal
  • 1Confuse, confound, or perplex (someone)

    much of the vocabulary confusticates him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years.
    • Then, good-bye and — confusticate you!
    • They asked me so many questions that I was most confusticated.
    • Having a festival here at the end of the summer is mildly confusticating.
    • It altogether confusticated me to think I couldn't help myself.
    • Bother and confusticate those French dressmakers!
    • That line confusticates me - does it have a specific meaning?
    • How many chances do you get to confusticate Satan himself?
    Synonyms
    bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking
    1. 1.1 Make (something) obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
      you seem to be purposefully confusticating the issue
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It will take me a long time to better my confusticated style.
      • Tell him frankly you don't like him and spare him the confusticating detail.
      • I do not care to perpetuate his confusticating error.
      • The information contained herein has been thoroughly encrypted and confusticated.

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of confound or confuse.

 
 

Definition of confusticate in US English:

confusticate

verbˌkɑnˈfəstəkeɪtˌkänˈfəstəkāt
[with object]informal
  • 1Confuse, confound, or perplex (someone)

    much of the vocabulary confusticates him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They asked me so many questions that I was most confusticated.
    • How many chances do you get to confusticate Satan himself?
    • The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years.
    • It altogether confusticated me to think I couldn't help myself.
    • Then, good-bye and — confusticate you!
    • Bother and confusticate those French dressmakers!
    • That line confusticates me - does it have a specific meaning?
    • Having a festival here at the end of the summer is mildly confusticating.
    Synonyms
    bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking
    1. 1.1 Make (something) obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
      you seem to be purposefully confusticating the issue
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Tell him frankly you don't like him and spare him the confusticating detail.
      • I do not care to perpetuate his confusticating error.
      • The information contained herein has been thoroughly encrypted and confusticated.
      • It will take me a long time to better my confusticated style.

Origin

Mid 19th century: alteration of confound or confuse.

 
 
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