Puzzled vs Confuses - What's the difference?
puzzled | confuses |
Confused or perplexed.
* 1848 , ,
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(puzzle)
(confuse)
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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 puzzled and confuses
is that puzzled is (puzzle) while confuses is (confuse).As an adjective puzzled
is confused or perplexed.puzzled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
- (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
- Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.