Discombobulate vs. Confuse — What's the Difference?

To throw into a state of confusion.

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed

To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.

To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.

To cause to be confused; confuse emotionally.

(Archaic) To cause to feel embarrassment.

Cause to be confused emotionally

To fail to differentiate (one person or thing) from another

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;

To make more complex or difficult to understand

To make something unclear or incomprehensible

(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder somebody; to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand

(transitive) To mix up, muddle up one thing with another; to mistake one thing for another.

(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.

To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

To rout; discomfit.

(intransitive) To be confused.

Mixed; confounded.

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.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

Mistake one thing for another;

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;

Cause to feel embarrassment;

Assemble without order or sense;

Make unclear or incomprehensible;

Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;