confondre — meaning in English

English meaning

• betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
• conflate verb To combine or mix together.
• confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
• mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.

Senses

confondre is used for these senses in English:

• betray (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
• conflate (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
• mistake (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

betray — full definition

1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

conflate — full definition

1. verb To combine or mix together.
2. verb To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
3. verb To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.

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