MIX UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mix up mean? 

• MIX UP (verb)
  The verb MIX UP has 2 senses:

1. assemble without order or sense

2. cause to be perplexed or confounded

  Familiarity information: MIX UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIX UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assemble without order or sense

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

confuse; jumble; mix up

Context example:

She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence

Hypernyms (to "mix up" is one way to...):

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together (create by putting components or members together)

Verb group:

confound; confuse (mistake one thing for another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mix up"):

addle; muddle; puddle (mix up or confuse)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be perplexed or confounded

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

mix up; stump

Context example:

This problem stumped her

Hypernyms (to "mix up" is one way to...):

amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex (be a mystery or bewildering to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to mix up Sue

 Context examples 

There’s enough trouble with the folk of this world, Boy Jim, without going out of your way to mix up with those of another.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Powerful hydrothermal vents mix up material from the moon's water-filled, porous core with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean - and it is released into space, in the form of water vapor and ice grains.

(Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus, NASA)

Your kindness and patience can never be forgotten, your indefatigable patience in trying to make it possible for him to learn his part—in trying to give him a brain which nature had denied—to mix up an understanding for him out of the superfluity of your own!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)