confuse

verb

1. (transitive)to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).

   “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.”

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

   “The dense fog utterly confused traffic on the highway.”

4. (dated, transitive)To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
5. (obsolete, transitive)To rout; discomfit.
6. (intransitive)To be confused.

adj

1. (obsolete)Synonym of confused.

   “Moꝛe ouer take away oꝛdre from all thynges / what ſhulde than remayne? certes nothynge finally / except ſome man wolde imagine eftſones / Chaos: whiche of ſome is expounde a cõfuse mixture: […]”

   “The 11. article is ſo confuſe that it is harde to bring it into any certeine numbre of demandes.”

   “[T]he moſt laudable languages are alwaies moſt plaine and diſtinct, and the barbarous moſt confuſe and indiſtinct: […]”

   “It was all one with them to ſay, in a confuſe general way, either that the Holy Ghoſt ſanctiſied the Receivers, in the uſe of the outward Symbols, or that He ſanctified the Symbols to their uſe: […]”