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- (of names, information, files, etc.) put into the wrong place or order, esp. when put where similar things belong:
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If someone says they’ve “mixed up their names,” it means they’ve mistaken one person’s name for another’s. Similarly, if someone has trouble telling two objects apart, they might say they’ve “mixed them up.”
To confuse someone; confound someone: His explanation just mixed me up more. The confusing directions mixed up all the party guests.
To involve or implicate someone in the activities of someone or something, especially something negative: Don't mix yourself up with that crowd. She mixed him up in the whole mess. He got mixed up with the wrong people.
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.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective mixed-up. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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(of names, information, files, etc.) put into the wrong place or order, esp. when put where similar things belong: They got his records mixed up (= confused information about him with someone else's information). (Definition of mixed up from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)