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confound in Irish

confound in Irish is scread mhaidine ar — confound means to completely puzzle or baffle someone.

confound in Irish

scread mhaidine ar
verb

What does "confound" mean?

  1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
    "The magician's trick confounded the entire audience."
  2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
    "It's easy to confound correlation with causation in statistics."
  3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
    "Her clever counter-argument confounded his whole strategy."
  4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").
    "Age turned out to be a confound the researchers hadn't controlled for."
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confound in a sentence

  • The magician's trick confounded the entire audience.
  • Economists were confounded by the sudden market crash.
  • It's easy to confound correlation with causation in statistics.
  • Her clever counter-argument confounded his whole strategy.

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What is "confound" in Irish?

"confound" in Irish is scread mhaidine ar. confound means: To completely puzzle or baffle someone.

How do you use "confound" in a sentence?

Example: "The magician's trick confounded the entire audience." In Irish, "confound" is scread mhaidine ar.

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