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What is the difference between confuse and bewilder?

confuse | bewilder |

Bewilder is a synonym of confuse.



As verbs the difference between confuse and bewilder

is that confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder while bewilder is to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.

confuse

English

Verb

(confus)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * flummox * mistake * See also

    See also

    * discombobulate ----

    bewilder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
  • :
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • (label) To disorientate someone.
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  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewilderment