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1.7 Confusion
confuse, equivocate, mysterious, riddle, embroilment, commotion
confound = confuse = addle = muddle = puddle = fuddle = befuddle = perplex =
fluster = discombobulate = bemuse = bewilder = obfuscate
• (confound)- to perplex or amaze, esp. by a sudden disturbance or surprise,
( ); The man's face blanched as he cowered and slunk
away confounded, without uttering a word. — The Every-day Life of Abraham
Lincoln;
• to put to shame; abash, ( ; );
• (confuse)- to perplex or bewilder, ( ; ); But he now
began to make mistakes and to grow confused, and this distressed him
greatly. — Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy;
• to fail to distinguish between, ( ); Don’t confuse Nepal with
Naples;
• (addle)- to make or become confused, ( ; ; );
She was nothing like his addle-witted mother and even less like his vapid
sisters. — Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel;
• (muddle)- a state of being turbid ( , , ) or confused;
hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness, ( , ); But instead
of making other things more understandable, it only muddled them a little
more. — Knocked for a Loop;
• to make turbid, or muddy, as water;
• (puddle)- to make muddy, ; English soil as they stepped ashore was
a puddle, and English air a fog. — Robert Browning;
• (fuddle)- to make confusedly intricate, ( ); Germany
hoped to fuddle the king, whom they would have gladly placed at the head
of their league. — Henry VIII and His Court;
• (befuddle)- to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments;
• to stupefy, ( ) with or as if with alcoholic
drink; And he began to remember certain drugs that could befuddle even the
wisest man. — Prison Of Souls;
• (fluster)- to put into a state of agitated confusion, ( , ,