Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - confuse

(confuses, confusing, confused) 1. If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one. Great care is taken to avoid confusing the two types of projects... I can’t see how anyone could confuse you with another! VERB: V pl-n, V n with n • confusion Use different colours of felt pen on your sketch to avoid confusion. N-UNCOUNT 2. To confuse someone means to make it difficult for them to know exactly what is happening or what to do. German politics surprised and confused him. VERB: V n 3. To confuse a situation means to make it complicated or difficult to understand. To further confuse the issue, there is an enormous variation in the amount of sleep people feel happy with. VERB: V n