confuse

1. (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understandExamples: "It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday."; ""What confuses me is how other insurance companies knew about it," said Zhang, a 26-year-old government employee from Shandong."; "President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal."transitive

2. (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).Examples: "People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish."; "Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when talking about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. […] “They’re saying he got confused. That he was talking about something else. That he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiples times in that scenario,” the former South Carolina governor added."transitive

3. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.transitive

4. (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.datedtransitive

5. (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.obsoletetransitive

6. (intransitive) To be confused.intransitive