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confuse

/kənˈfjuz/ verbo A2

En español: confundir, confusionar, barahustar, barajustar

  1. To puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand. (transitive) · It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.
  2. To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another). (transitive) · People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish.
  3. To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder. (transitive) · The dense fog utterly confused traffic on the highway.
  4. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass. (dated, transitive)
  5. To be confused. (intransitive)

He/she/it confuses · Pasado confused · Participio pasado confused · Forma en -ing confusing

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De la biblioteca

“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 64 · B2
It’s by far the most confusing thing _I_ ever heard!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 82 · B2
I was only confused for the moment, because I felt that I _should_ be looked at.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 308 · B2
This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 56 · B2

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