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Definition of Mix up
1. Verb. Assemble without order or sense. "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
Related verbs: Confound, Confuse
Specialized synonyms: Addle, Muddle, Puddle
Generic synonyms: Assemble, Piece, Put Together, Set Up, Tack, Tack Together
Derivative terms: Confusion, Jumble, Jumble
2. Verb. Cause to be perplexed or confounded. "The performance is likely to mix up Sue"; "This problem stumped her"
Generic synonyms: Amaze, Baffle, Beat, Bewilder, Dumbfound, Flummox, Get, Gravel, Mystify, Nonplus, Perplex, Pose, Puzzle, Stick, Stupefy, Vex
Derivative terms: Stumper
Definition of Mix up
1. Verb. To mix or blend. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To confuse or reverse. ¹
3. Noun. A mix, blend, or variety. ¹
4. Noun. (idiomatic) A confusion or reversal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mix Up
Literary usage of Mix up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"And if the inventor of an improvement obtain a patent for the whole • 371 *
machine, or mix up the new and the old discoveries together, or incorporate in ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... a.belief which they did not entertain, but that they should, daringly and
blasphemously, mix up this falsehood in the solemn services of devotion. ..."
3. Finding Themselves, the Letters of an American Army Chief Nurse in a British by Julia Catherine Stimson (1918)
"It was a grand mix-up. Miss Taylor is to be Chief Nurse here. Loads and loads of
love, Jule. It was getting dark as I went down between the A and B lines of ..."
4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... to mix up, stir violently, allied to Skt. root bhur, to be active. Purport,
to imply. .... mix up ..."
5. Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England to the Grand Jury at the Central by Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Frederick Cockburn, Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Herbert Charles Alexander Brand, Alexander Abercromby Nelson (1867)
"It is important that we should keep the various parts of the case distinct and
separate, and not mix up matters that have no immediate connection with one ..."
6. Sketches by Samuel Prout in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland by Samuel Prout, Ernest G. Halton (1915)
"... be done by freely working one tint in with another ; that is, to let them
unite before they dry on your paper. Always mix up a good quantity of colour ..."
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