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Confused vs Confuses - What's the difference?

confused | confuses |

As verbs the difference between confused and confuses

is that confused is past tense of confuse while confuses is third-person singular of confuse.

As an adjective confused

is unable to think clearly or understand.

confused

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confuse)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) unable to think clearly or understand
  • (lb) disoriented
  • chaotic, jumbled or muddled
  • making no sense; illogical
  • embarrassed

    • Synonyms

    (checksyns) * puzzled * perplexed

    Related terms

    * confuse * confusing * confusion

    confuses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (confuse)
    • ----

    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

    Related terms

    * confused * confusing * confusion

    See also

    * discombobulate ----