Word Study
mix up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb mix up has 2 senses
- mix up(v = verb.creation) confuse, jumble - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence" is one way to assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
- mix up(v = verb.cognition) stump - cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her" is one way to amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to mix up Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
mix up, n.
- To confuse the identities of (two or more objects); to mistake (one object for another); as, at the family gathering he mixed up his two nieces, to their great amusement. [PJC]
- To mix together; -- usually implying a mistake, whether done intentionally or unintentionally; as, the mixed up this year's receipts with last year's, and it took hours to find the right ones. [PJC]
THESAURUS
mix up
addle, addle the wits, admix, alloy, amalgamate, anarchy, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bemingle, bewilder, blend, bollix up, botch, botchery, bother, bug, chaos, cloud, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, commixture, complicate, compose, composite, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, confusion, conglomerate, daze, dazzle, derange, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disjoint, disorganize, disorient, disrupt, distemper, distract, disturb, dizzy, embarrass, embrangle, emulsify, entangle, fabulous formless darkness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foul up, foul-up, fuddle, fumble, fuse, fusion, fuss, garble, hash, hassle, homogenize, immingle, immix, immixture, implicate, integrate, interblend, interfusion, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intermixture, intertwine, interweave, involve, jumble, knead, knot, license, louse up, maze, merge, mess up, mingle, mingle-mangle, misdeem, misidentify, misrule, mist, mix, moider, morass, muck up, muddle, mull, muss, perplex, perturb, pi, play hob with, pother, put out, raise hell, ramify, rattle, ravel, riffle, ruffle, scramble, screw up, screw-up, shambles, shuffle, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir up, syncretize, tangle, throw into confusion, throw together, toss together, tumble, unsettle, upset, work
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