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Definition of confusticate in English: confusticateverb kɒnˈfʌstɪkeɪtˌkɑnˈfəstəkeɪt [with object]informal 1Confuse, confound, or perplex (someone) much of the vocabulary confusticates him Example sentencesExamples - The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years.
- Then, good-bye and — confusticate you!
- They asked me so many questions that I was most confusticated.
- Having a festival here at the end of the summer is mildly confusticating.
- It altogether confusticated me to think I couldn't help myself.
- Bother and confusticate those French dressmakers!
- That line confusticates me - does it have a specific meaning?
- How many chances do you get to confusticate Satan himself?
Synonyms bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking - 1.1 Make (something) obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
you seem to be purposefully confusticating the issue Example sentencesExamples - It will take me a long time to better my confusticated style.
- Tell him frankly you don't like him and spare him the confusticating detail.
- I do not care to perpetuate his confusticating error.
- The information contained herein has been thoroughly encrypted and confusticated.
OriginMid 19th century: alteration of confound or confuse. Definition of confusticate in US English: confusticateverbˌkɑnˈfəstəkeɪtˌkänˈfəstəkāt [with object]informal 1Confuse, confound, or perplex (someone) much of the vocabulary confusticates him Example sentencesExamples - They asked me so many questions that I was most confusticated.
- How many chances do you get to confusticate Satan himself?
- The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years.
- It altogether confusticated me to think I couldn't help myself.
- Then, good-bye and — confusticate you!
- Bother and confusticate those French dressmakers!
- That line confusticates me - does it have a specific meaning?
- Having a festival here at the end of the summer is mildly confusticating.
Synonyms bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound, befog, nonplus, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking - 1.1 Make (something) obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
you seem to be purposefully confusticating the issue Example sentencesExamples - Tell him frankly you don't like him and spare him the confusticating detail.
- I do not care to perpetuate his confusticating error.
- The information contained herein has been thoroughly encrypted and confusticated.
- It will take me a long time to better my confusticated style.
OriginMid 19th century: alteration of confound or confuse. |