"deconfuse" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "de- + confuse",
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          "ref": "1967, Air Force Magazine, volume 50, page 6",
          "text": "Are you going to deconfuse me, or do I have to mention your name to Senator Fulbright?",
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          "ref": "1995, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations, The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1995, page 27",
          "text": "[…] but the fact of the matter is I heard a lot of legal mumbo-jumbo. A great way to create a web of confusion. Let me try to deconfuse the issue.",
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          "ref": "1991, Sheldon Heath, Dealing with the Therapist's Vulnerability to Depression, page 46",
          "text": "Self psychologists (Bacal and Newman 1990) suggest that empathy is tuning in to the emotional state of the other and distinguishing or deconfusing the two, […]",
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        "To free from confusion; to enlighten or clarify."
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        "(transitive) To free from confusion; to enlighten or clarify."
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    {
      "rhymes": "-uːz"
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  "word": "deconfuse"
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  "etymology_text": "de- + confuse",
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          "confusion",
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        "(transitive) To free from confusion; to enlighten or clarify."
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