Assail vs Confuse - What's the difference?
assail | confuse |
To attack violently using words or force.
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
As verbs the difference between assail and confuse
is that assail is to attack violently using words or force while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.assail
English
Verb
(en verb)- Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
- For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").
