(~s)
1.
If there is ~ about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
There’s still ~ about the number of casualties...
Omissions in my recent article must have caused ~.
N-VAR
2.
Confusion is a situation in which everything is in disorder, especially because there are lots of things happening at the same time.
There was ~ when a man fired shots...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
see also confuse