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confusingverbpresent participle of confuse to throw into a state of mental uncertaintythe similar-sounding words "censure" and "censor" often confuse people addling, baffling, bamboozling, beating, befogging, befuddling, bemusing, bewildering, buffaloing, confounding, discombobulating, disorienting, flummoxing, foxing, fuddling, getting, graveling(or gravelling), mazing, muddling, muddying, mystifying, perplexing, posing, puzzling, vexing sticking, stumping, weirding outabashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingagitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingbeguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking blowing one's mind, going to one's head assuring, reassuring, satisfyingenlightening, informing to make (something) unclear to the understandingstop confusing the issue with irrelevant facts beclouding, befogging, blurring, clouding, fogging, muddying, obfuscating complicating, perplexing, sophisticatingentangling, snarling, tanglingdisarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, disrupting, disturbing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, upsetting clarifying, clearing (up), illuminating simplifying, streamliningdisentangling, straightening (out), undoing, unraveling, unscrambling, untanglingdeciphering, decodinganalyzing, breaking down to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or relateda lot of people confuse popular fame with enduring achievement conflating, confounding, mistaking, mixing (up) lumping (together)misapplying, miscalling, misidentifying, misnaming differencing, differentiating, discriminating, distinguishing, separating to throw into a state of self-conscious distressshe was confused by the shocking bluntness of his marriage proposal abashing, confounding, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, putting off, putting out, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingdebasing, degrading, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, queering, shaming calming, comforting, consoling, relieving, soothingbuoying, cheering, emboldening, encouraging, hearteningassuring, reassuring to undo the proper order or arrangement ofvandals had hopelessly confused the papers in the office files deranging, disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disjointing, dislocating, disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, hashing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, tumbling, upsetting embroiling, entangling, snarling, tanglingagitating, perturbing, stirring (up), unsettlingcluttering arranging, arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, regulating, straightening (up), tidying aligning(also alining), lining, lining up, queuing(or queueing)classifying, codifying, methodizing, systematizing, systemizingadjusting, fixinggrooming, making up, sprucing (up)unscrambling |