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mix up en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A mix, blend, or variety.
   • Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up.
2. (idiomatic) A confusion or reversal.
   • I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.

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Synonyms

muddle

mix up en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
   • She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To combine thoroughly.
   • All the smells of the food had mixed up together.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
   • She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.
   • The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough. 1956, Katherine Lever, “Aristophanes, Comic Poet”, in The Art of Greek Comedy, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 140:
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To confuse or reverse.
   • I always mix up Jack with Jake.
   • I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.
5. (often, qualifier:usually passive voice, transitive, with be or get, with with) To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
   • He got mixed up with a bad crowd.
   • Hey! What're you gonna do? Nice college boy, huh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you want to gun down a police captain. Why? 'Cause he slapped you in the face a little bit? 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Sonny Corleone (James Caan), Paramount Pictures:
   • KEELHAUL KEY!? That's that cursed island! Don't get mixed up with that place, for your own sake. 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
   • Then he got mixed up with an older woman.
   • Now, he's mixed up with some half-baked religion.
6. To shuffle.
   • mix up this Rubik's cube

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Relateds

mix it up · whip up · in the mix

Synonyms

vex · blind · addle · bedevil · knot · confuddle · confuzzle · dumbfound · puzzle · discombobulate · befuddle · embroil · jumble · flurry · bemuse · bumfuzzle · fuddle · jumble · stump · muddle · complicate · perplex · ravel · flabbergaster · confuse · ferhoodle · mix up · flabbergast · jumble · entangle · embroil · baffle · bemud · scramble · throw · bamboozle · disconcert · stick · muddy · flabagast · flummox · fluster · confound · dazzle · lose · bewilder · baffound

Translations (18)

pl pomylić (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · ja 間違える (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pl zmieszać (to mix or blend thoroughly and completely) · pt confundir (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pl pomieszać (to mix or blend thoroughly and completely) · es hacerse un lío (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · da forveksle (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pt misturar (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · es trabucar (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · es hacerse chibolas (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pl wymieszać (to mix or blend thoroughly and completely) · pl mieszać (to mix or blend thoroughly and completely) · pl mieszać (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pl mylić (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · pl pomieszać (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · es hacerse bolas (to confuse things, to get things mixed up) · es revolver (to mix or blend thoroughly and completely) · pt trocar (to confuse things, to get things mixed up)