Meaning

6 senses
  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.

  4. (idiomatic, transitive)To confuse or reverse.

    I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.

    I always mix up Jack with Jake.

  5. (often, transitive)To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.

    He got mixed up with a bad crowd.

    Then he got mixed up with an older woman.

  6. To shuffle.

    mix up this Rubik's cube

More definitions
  • cause to be perplexed or confounded
  • assemble without order or sense

Examples

21 sentences
  1. There's been a mix-up.

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  2. There might've been a mix-up.

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  3. Don't mix me up.

    ruНе путай меня.

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  4. I hope I did not mix anything up.

    Сподіваюсь, я нічого не наплутала.

    ruНадеюсь, я ничего не перепутал.

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  5. This is all a big mix up. I'm not the girl you're looking for.

    deEs liegt eine große Verwechslung vor. Ich bin nicht die, welche du suchst.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

mixes up, mixing up, mixed up, mixed up
Base formmix up · to mix up
3rd person singularmixes up
Present participlemixing up
Past simplemixed up
Past participlemixed up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymix up
he, she, itmixes up

Past simpleLesson

all personsmixed up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mixed up
he, she, ithas mixed up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mix up

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

44 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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