Difference between Confuse and Deceive

CONFUSE vs DECEIVE: ADJECTIVE

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

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
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 lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.

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 mislead by a false appearance or statement; cause to believe what is false, or to disbelieve what is true; delude.
To cause to fail in fulfilment or realization; frustrate or disappoint.
. To take from; rob stealthily.
Be dishonest with
Be false to
In fencing, to evade, as an attack or parry, thus causing an opponent to lose the contact or feel of one's foil.
To cause to pass; while away.
Synonyms To beguile, cheat, overreach, circumvent, dupe, fool, gull, cozen, hoodwink.

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

Evade, Deceit, Manipulate, Misinform, Cheat, Fool, Defraud, Confuse, Hoodwink, Mislead, Lead on, Lead astray, Cozen, Betray, Delude

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

Evade, Deceit, Manipulate, Misinform, Cheat, Fool, Defraud, Confuse, Hoodwink, Mislead, Lead on, Lead astray, Cozen, Betray, Delude

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.

Intention to deceive: Intention to deceive the other party is the essence of fraud.
The Government must continue its efforts to stop unfair selling practices which deceive investors, and unfair trade practices which deceive consumers.
Not only can I deceive others, but I can also deceive my own heart.
They have to deceive themselves to deceive the abuser.
Those scales yonder are exact; I may deceive my fellows here, but deceive God I cannot then.
Sun cannot deceive when it gives light, a candle beside the Sunne may deceive.
If you compare the numbers between Blind and Deceive, Deceive actually looks better.
Trivers argues that in order to deceive others, we often deceive ourselves first.
It is very hard to deceive others unless you first deceive yourself.
When government officials deceive Congress, they deceive citizens.