Difference between Confuse and Bedevil

CONFUSE vs BEDEVIL: ADJECTIVE

To make something unclear or incomprehensible.
To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.
To cause to feel embarrassment.
To fail to differentiate (one person or thing) from another.
To make more complex or difficult to understand.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; ; to confuse one's vision.
To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

To spoil; ruin.
To spoil; to corrupt.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
To possess with or as if with a devil; bewitch.
To worry, annoy, or frustrate.
To torment mercilessly; plague.

Mixed; confused: as, “a confuse cry,”
Perplexed; confounded; disconcerted.
To mingle together, as two or more things, ideas, etc., which are properly separate and distinct; combine without order or clearness; throw together indiscriminately; derange; disorder; jumble.
To perplex or derange the mind or ideas of; embarrass; disconcert; bewilder; confound.
To fuse together; blend into one.
To take one idea or thing for another.
To become mixed up; become involved.
Be confusing or perplexing to
Cause to be unable to think clearly

To treat with diabolical violence or abuse.
To possess with or as with a devil.
Cause to be unable to think clearly
Be confusing or perplexing to
To make a devil or devils of; bring into the condition of a devil: as, to bedevil mankind.
To bewilder with worry; torment; bother; confuse.
To “play the devil with”; transform or confuse as if by the aid or agency of evil spirits; confound; muddle; corrupt; spoil.

Flurry, Put off, Fox, Mix up, Mistake, Throw, Jumble, Obscure, Blur, Bedevil, Fuddle, Disconcert, Discombobulate, Confound, Befuddle

Afflict, Plague, Rag, Fox, Throw, Crucify, Dun, Fuddle, Discombobulate, Tantalize, Confuse, Torment, Befuddle, Frustrate, Confound

Consternate, Flurry, Put off, Fox, Mix up, Mistake, Throw, Jumble, Obscure, Blur, Fuddle, Disconcert, Discombobulate, Confound, Befuddle

Afflict, Plague, Rag, Fox, Throw, Crucify, Dun, Fuddle, Discombobulate, Tantalize, Confuse, Torment, Befuddle, Frustrate, Confound

Meshing policies and procedures, which may confuse employees.
Because people might confuse you with another company.
It will not confuse your dog at all.
Many homebuyers confuse Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Critical thinkers do not confuse theories with facts.
It is, of course, easy to confuse them.
Unfortunately, readers confuse the parentheses for square brackets.
Social utilitarians tend to confuse these two variables.
Moreover, there are definitional issues that confuse matters.
App did confuse me and continues to confuse me when land on the credit card tab every now and then.

However, the nondelegation issue is just one of several administrative problems that often bedevil state lethal injection procedures.
American terrorism that would bedevil the next American president.
Chinese companies on outbound investment and how to avoid the pitfalls that often bedevil big takeovers.
There were none of the silent letters or phonetic inconsistencies that bedevil modern English spelling.
Judging from this literature these are problems which bedevil civil justice systems around the world.
It attracts hackers from around the world whose refined skills bedevil administrators everywhere.".
She was now an adversary with no Napoleon to bedevil her.
Ethical uncertainties and conflicts will always bedevil the helping process.
Similar problems bedevil the producer and consumer price data.
Uncertainties bedevil plans to keep world trade flowing.