confuses
- 1Third-person singular simple present of confuse.
The redesigned tax form confuses even experienced accountants.
His habit of switching topics mid-sentence confuses everyone in the meeting.
Note
The -s form that pairs with he, she, it or a singular noun, and it carries every meaning of confuse. Most often it baffles a person, but it also takes a with-phrase when two things are mixed up: she confuses one twin with the other. An older use, now dated, meant embarrassing someone. The battlefield sense of routing an enemy is obsolete.
She still confuses one twin with the other.
The new map confuses the old road with the highway.
confuses is a form of confuse
confuse, verb: To puzzle or bewilder someone, especially by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise hard to understand. Full entry
- Spelling
- confuse → confuses: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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