Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to confuse
Participle: confused
Gerund: confusing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | confuse |
| you | confuse |
| he;she;it | confuses |
| we | confuse |
| you | confuse |
| they | confuse |
Perfect
| I | have confused |
| you | have confused |
| he;she;it | has confused |
| we | have confused |
| you | have confused |
| they | have confused |
Past
| I | confused |
| you | confused |
| he;she;it | confused |
| we | confused |
| you | confused |
| they | confused |
Pluperfect
| I | had confused |
| you | had confused |
| he;she;it | had confused |
| we | had confused |
| you | had confused |
| they | had confused |
Future
| I | will confuse |
| you | will confuse |
| he;she;it | will confuse |
| we | will confuse |
| you | will confuse |
| they | will confuse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have confused |
| you | will have confused |
| he;she;it | will have confused |
| we | will have confused |
| you | will have confused |
| they | will have confused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | confuse |
| you | confuse |
| he;she;it | confuse |
| we | confuse |
| you | confuse |
| they | confuse |
Perfect
| I | have confused |
| you | have confused |
| he;she;it | have confused |
| we | have confused |
| you | have confused |
| they | have confused |
Imperfect
| I | confused |
| you | confused |
| he;she;it | confused |
| we | confused |
| you | confused |
| they | confused |
Pluperfect
| I | had confused |
| you | had confused |
| he;she;it | had confused |
| we | had confused |
| you | had confused |
| they | had confused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would confuse |
| you | would confuse |
| he;she;it | would confuse |
| we | would confuse |
| you | would confuse |
| they | would confuse |
Perfect
| I | would have confused |
| you | would have confused |
| he;she;it | would have confused |
| we | would have confused |
| you | would have confused |
| they | would have confused |
Imperative
| you | confuse |
| we | Let's confuse |
| you | confuse |
Verbs conjugated like 'confuse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'confuse'
confute,
contuse,
concise,
concuss,
conduce,
confess,
confesse,
confide,
confine,
conjure,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- entangle or perplex
- knot
- to render someone less able to understand
- baffle, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confuddle, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, dumbfound, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flummox, jumble, knot, perplex, puzzle
- To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
- abash
Antonyms
- to render someone less able to understand
- clarify, distinguish, enlighten, inspire, judicate, mediate, organise, organize, reconcile, stabilize
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from confused, from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō.
Sample Sentences
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[...] between lies of greater or lesser magnitude, thought that it lay in favor of the dirt road aforesaid. The mention of the thing he thought he perceived was involuntary on Sam's part at first, and his confused attempts to dissuade him he set down to a desperate lying on second thoughts, as being unwilling to implicate Liza.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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If his period of confinement have been very long, the prospect of release bewilders and confuses him. His broken heart may flutter for a moment, when he thinks of the world outside, and what it might have been to him in all those lonely years, but that is all. The cell-door has been closed [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and cautious old gentleman, ambled up and down the room, appearing, as John Bunyan hath it, “ much tumbled up and down in his mind, ” and divided between his wish to help George, and a certain confused notion of maintaining law and order: so, as he shambled about, he delivered himself as follows:
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] displayed the confused and unpromising aspect of the room,—saddles, bridles, several sorts of harness, riding-whips, overcoats, and various articles of clothing, scattered up and down the room in confused variety; and the dogs, of whom we have before spoken, had encamped themselves among them, to suit their own taste and convenience.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of families,—men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences from the surges of slavery,—feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality. They come to seek a refuge among you; they come to seek education, knowledge, Christianity.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I 'm a bit confused by it. I dunno how Billy knows ' em, but um...
(Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties)