| 单词 | confuse |
| 释义 | confuse (once / 86 pages) v If you confuse two things, you are not correctly identifying them. If you confuse heartburn with a heart attack, you might end up at the emergency room instead of in the antacid aisle of the drugstore. To confuse can also mean to bewilder. If you tell a teacher that she's confusing you, you probably mean that she's being more complex than you can handle. A lot of people get confused by the differences among "their," "they're," and "there." To confuse the situation even further, there's "theirs" and "there's." WORD FAMILYconfuse: confusable, confused, confuses, confusing, confusion+/confused: confusedly, confusedness, unconfused/confusing: confusingly/confusion: confusions/unconfused: unconfusedly USAGE EXAMPLES“People were confused about the issue,” he said. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) She is declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses via a controversial and confusing process that, in some precincts, involves dodgeball. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “We would leave, allowing these confusing Americans to watch on their own.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v mistake one thing for another you are confusing me with the other candidate Syn|Hyper confound blur, obnubilate, obscure make unclear, indistinct, or blurred jumble, mix upassemble without order or sense misidentify, mistake identify incorrectly 2v make unclear, indistinct, or blurred Her remarks confused the debate Syn|Hypo|Hyper blur, obnubilate, obscure confound mistake one thing for another muddy cause to become muddy alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v assemble without order or sense Syn|Hypo|Hyper jumble, mix up confound mistake one thing for another addle, muddle, puddle mix up or confuse assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together create by putting components or members together 4v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly These questions confuse even the experts Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw disconcert, flurry, put off cause to feel embarrassment demoralize confuse or put into disorder amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vexbe a mystery or bewildering to disorient, disorientatecause to be lost or disoriented mix up, stumpcause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5v cause to feel embarrassment The constant attention of the young man confused her Syn|Hypo|Hyper disconcert, flurry, put off bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly fluster cause to be nervous or upset bothermake confused or perplexed or puzzled deflect, distractdraw someone's attention away from something rufflediscompose abash, embarrass cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious |
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