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      • to fail to recognize two people or things correctly by thinking that one person or thing is the other person or thing: People often mix us up because we look so similar. I think you're mixing me up with my sister.
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  1. to fail to recognize two people or things correctly by thinking that one person or thing is the other person or thing: People often mix us up because we look so similar. I think you're mixing me up with my sister. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Confusion, confusing and feeling confused.

  2. to fail to recognize two people or things correctly by thinking that one person or thing is the other person or thing: People often mix us up because we look so similar. I think you're mixing me up with my sister. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Confusion, confusing and feeling confused.

  3. If you accidentally switch two people’s names when introducing them, you have mixed them up. If you add salt instead of sugar to your baking recipe by mistake, you have mixed up the ingredients. If someone gives you incorrect directions and you end up getting lost, they have mixed you up.

  4. to mistake someone or something for someone or something else; to confuse two people or things: It’s easy to mix up the twins . I mix them up all the time .

  5. If you mix up two things or people, you confuse them, so that you think that one of them is the other one. People often mix me up with other actors. [VERB noun PARTICLE + with] They get confused and mix up their words. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Any time you told one of them something, they'd swear you'd mixed them up and told the other.

  6. If you mix up two things or people, you confuse them, so that you think that one of them is the other one. 2. If you mix up a number of things, you put things of different kinds together or place things so that they are not in order.

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  8. Conflate is a more formal way to say "mix together," and it's typically used for texts or ideas. You probably wouldn't say you conflated the ingredients for a cake, but if you blended two different stories together to make a new one, conflate would work.

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