confuse the issue

  • 1confuse the issue — make a something more complicated …

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  • 2issue — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 problem ADJECTIVE ▪ big, burning, central, critical, crucial, important, key, main, major, serious …

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  • 3confuse — con|fuse [kənˈfju:z] v [T] [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: confused] 1.) to make someone feel that they cannot think clearly or do not understand ▪ I understand the text but the diagrams are confusing me. 2.) to think wrongly that a person or thing is… …

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  • 4confuse — confusable, adj. confusability, n. confusably, adv. confusedly /keuhn fyooh zid lee, fyoohzd /, adv. confusedness, n. /keuhn fyoohz /, v.t., confused, confusing. 1. to pe …

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  • 5confuse — verb (T) 1 to make someone feel that they cannot think clearly or do not understand: Don t give me so much information you re confusing me! 2 to think wrongly that one person, thing, or idea etc is someone or something else: confuse sb/sth with:… …

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  • 6confuse — [[t]kənfju͟ːz[/t]] confuses, confusing, confused 1) VERB If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one. [V pl n] Great care is taken to avoid confusing the two types of projects... [V n with n] I …

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  • 7issue — [[t]ɪ̱sjuː, ɪ̱ʃuː[/t]] ♦ issues, issuing, issued 1) N COUNT: usu with supp An issue is an important subject that people are arguing about or discussing. → See also side issue Agents will raise the issue of prize money for next year s world… …

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  • 8confuse — con•fuse [[t]kənˈfyuz[/t]] v. t. fused, fus•ing 1) to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me[/ex] 2) to make unclear or indistinct: The new evidence tended to confuse the issue[/ex] 3) to fail to distinguish between; associate by …

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  • 9The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film) — Infobox Film name = The Phantom of the Opera caption = director = Rupert Julian Lon Chaney Ernst Laemmle Edward Sedgwick producer = Carl Laemmle writer = Gaston Leroux Elliott J. Clawson Raymond L. Schrock Bernard McConville Jasper Spearing… …

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  • 10The Art of Fiction — The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a nonfiction book by Ayn Rand, published posthumously. Edited by Tore Boeckmann, it was published by Plume in 2000, ISBN 0452281547. The book is based on a 1958 series of 12 four hour… …

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