Слово англійською: confuse
Дієслово
Переклад confuse українською: бентежити; викликати замішання, переплутувати, сплутувати
Детальний опис
- to make somebody unable to think clearly or understand something
- confuse somebody These two sets of statistics are guaranteed to confuse the public.
- confuse somebody with something They confused me with conflicting accounts of what happened.
- to think wrongly that somebody/something is somebody/something else synonym mix up
- confuse A and B People often confuse me and my twin sister.
- confuse A with B Be careful not to confuse quantity with quality.
- confuse A for B She says that meteors breaking apart can easily be confused for UFOs.
- confuse something to make a subject more difficult to understand
- His comments only served to confuse the issue further.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘rout, bring to ruin’): from Old French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere ‘mingle together’. Originally all senses of the verb were passive, and therefore appeared only as the past participle confused; the active voice occurred rarely until the 19th cent. when it began to replace confound.