(v. t.) To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
(v. t.) To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(2) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
(3) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(4) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(5) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
(6) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
(7) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(8) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
(9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(10) Many characteristics of the Chinese history and society are responsible for this controversy and confusion.
(11) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(12) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
(13) At present the use of the four terms to describe the common types of diabetes leads to confusion, which could readily be resolved by arriving at agreed definitions for each of these terms.
(14) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(15) The features of benzodiazepine withdrawal in the elderly may differ from those seen in young patients; withdrawal symptoms include confusion and disorientation which often does not precipitate milder reactions such as anxiety, insomnia and perceptual changes.
(16) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(17) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(18) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(19) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(20) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.
Mingle
Definition:
(v. t.) To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
(v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
(v. t.) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
(v. t.) To put together; to join.
(v. t.) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
(v. i.) To become mixed or blended.
(n.) A mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the best part of a week, the world’s leaders – more than 150 of them – will mingle, bargain and argue over the state of the world at the UN general assembly in New York.
(2) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
(3) Biopsy findings of the m. quadriceps femoris and the n. gastrocnemius revealed clustered atrophy of myofibrils and segmental demyelinization mingled with remyelinization.
(4) Fibrillar substance also mingled with such fibroblastic cell protrusions.
(5) Rudd goes to mingle in the crowds, a cool bottle of XXXX thrust into his hands.
(6) Whereas mitochondria may be found mingled with yolk bodies, we have never observed lipid droplets nor pigment bodies among any of the other inclusions.
(7) A number of immature eosinophils were present mingled with ordinary leukemic cells, which infiltrated in the bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, lungs and testes.
(8) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
(9) Sentinels (AGID test-negative) were allowed to mingle with EIA-infected mares and their foals in pasture situations in an area with high populations of potential vectors.
(10) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(11) Since in the pineal organ lymphatics are lacking it may well be that, due to a reduced drainage of tissue fluid, the coagulation of intercellular organic debris mingled with minerals increases with age.
(12) Such seeds and others are co-harvested and are often found mingling with commercial grain destined for human consumption.
(13) The 3H-RNA thus extracted was treated with electrophoretically purified DNase to break down and remove DNA that mingled with it.
(14) The juices from the chicken, spiced with chillies, sweet paprika and lime juice, ran down into the vegetables and mingled with the olive oil in the pan.
(15) Not without personal vanity, he took a positively Pooterish joy in mingling with the powerful.
(16) In those cupboards our family still existed, man and woman still mingled, children were still interleaved with their parents, intimacy survived.
(17) Prices for a stall start at £3,700 and come with at least three passes, enabling company representatives and lobbyists to mingle freely with politicians and other delegates.
(18) Histologically, components of the cortex and medulla were mingled in the tissue, and the glomeruli and convoluted tubules were scattered in disorder, and connective tissue proliferation was also observed.
(19) The 100-110 quadratus motoneurons and the 45-55 pyramidalis motoneurons mingled in the accessory abducens nucleus were larger than the lateral rectus motoneurons and sent their axons into the ipsilateral abducens nerve.
(20) A tongue of flattened epithelial cells extended across the wound surface, mingling with the superficial crust and migrating over eosinophilic fibrillar material.