confuse

Definitions(定義)

Verb: mistake one thing for another
Verb: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
Verb: cause to feel embarrassment
Verb: assemble without order or sense
Verb: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The instructions confuse many people.(説明は多くの人を混乱させる。)
Don’t confuse the two similar words.(似た言葉を混同しないで。)
Her answer seemed to confuse the teacher.(彼女の答えは先生を困惑させた。)

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: you are confusing me with the other candidate
Verb: I mistook her for the secretary
Verb: These questions confuse even the experts
Verb: This question completely threw me
Verb: This question befuddled even the teacher
Verb: The constant attention of the young man confused her
Verb: She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
Verb: Her remarks confused the debate
Verb: Their words obnubilate their intentions

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bedevil, befuddle, blur, confound, confuse, discombobulate, disconcert, flurry, fox, fuddle, jumble, mix up, obnubilate, obscure, put off, throw

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): assemble, be, change, embarrass, mistake

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accelerate, accept, account, account for, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, act, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, answer, antiquate, antique, appear, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, bake, balance, barb, barbarize, be well, beat, begin, belong, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, breathe, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, buy, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, come in for, come in handy, commercialize, communize, commute, compact, compare, complicate, compound, condense, confect, configure, confuse, connect, consist, constitutionalize, contain, contaminate, continue, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, cost, count, counterchange, cover, crack, cry, customize, cut, cut across, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, deck, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depend, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, deserve, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disagree, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distribute, diverge, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fall, fatten, feel, feminize, fertilize, figure, fill, fit, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gape, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, go, gravitate, habituate, hail, hang, harmonize, harshen, head, heat, hold, hoodoo, hue, hum, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, impend, inactivate, incandesce, incarnate, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, iridesce, islamize, isomerize, jumble, kill, laicize, legitimate, lend, let go, liberalize, lie, lifehack, lift, liquefy, litter, loiter, look, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, make sense, mark, masculinize, measure, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, mope, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, object, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, osculate, ossify, outmode, owe, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, pay, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, point, poison, polarize, politicize, port, press, professionalize, promise, proof, prostrate, prove, purify, put, put out, radicalize, rage, range, rank, rarefy, rate, rationalize, reassemble, recognize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relate, relax, remain, remodel, represent, rest, restore, retard, revolutionize, rig up, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, run, run into, rusticate, rut, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, seem, seethe, sell, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shine, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, sparkle, specify, spice, spike, sputter, squat, stabilize, stagnate, stain, stand, stand by, stay, steepen, stick, stiffen, still, stink, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subtend, suburbanize, suck, suffer, suit, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swim, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tend, tender, tense, territorialize, test, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, total, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transplant, transpose, trim, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, underlie, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, want, warm, wash, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wind, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): addle, bother, demoralize, disorient, distract, fluster, muddy, perplex

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: befuddlement, confusion, discombobulation, disconcertion, disconcertment, jumble

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): co

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative