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What does confuse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word confuse? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  2. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  3. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  4. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  5. To mistake one thing for another.
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You'll never confuse bookkeeping with fun, but today's software can take the edge off of the torture.
Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen.
Do not confuse this use of red with the practice of using red ink for each initial letter of God, Christos or Iesus.
People confuse us with majorettes but we don't perform at the same kind of functions.
The novel solution was to get the Navy to take over the birds, assign them Bureau Numbers to camouflage and confuse the rest of us.
He says even anglers who fish specifically for sharks often confuse porbeagles with mako sharks and other species.

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