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What does confuse mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word confuse? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  2. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  3. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  4. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  5. To mistake one thing for another.
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Policy flip-flops will only confuse matters and cause people to lose faith in the government's reform measures.
The novel solution was to get the Navy to take over the birds, assign them Bureau Numbers to camouflage and confuse the rest of us.
He says even anglers who fish specifically for sharks often confuse porbeagles with mako sharks and other species.
People confuse us with majorettes but we don't perform at the same kind of functions.
Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen.
To confuse matters further, police forces operate autonomously and record crimes differently.

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