confound in Russian
confound in Russian is проклина́ть, пу́тать, сбива́ть с толку — confound means to completely puzzle or baffle someone.
confound in Russian
проклина́ть
Pronounced: proklinat
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
пу́тать
Pronounced: putat
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
сбива́ть с толку
Pronounced: sbivat s tolku
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
смешивать
Pronounced: smeshivat
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
ухудшать
Pronounced: ukhudshat
(sometimes, proscribed) To make something worse.
посрамлять
Pronounced: posramlyat
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
проклина́ть
Pronounced: proklinat
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
проклина́ть
Pronounced: proklinat
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
What does "confound" mean?
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verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
"The magician's trick confounded the entire audience."
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verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
"It's easy to confound correlation with causation in statistics."
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verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
"Her clever counter-argument confounded his whole strategy."
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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 Russian?
"confound" in Russian is проклина́ть, пу́тать, сбива́ть с толку. confound means: To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
How do you pronounce проклина́ть?
"confound" in Russian is проклина́ть, pronounced "proklinat".
How do you use "confound" in a sentence?
Example: "The magician's trick confounded the entire audience." In Russian, "confound" is проклина́ть, пу́тать, сбива́ть с толку.
Are there other ways to say "confound" in Russian?
Yes — Russian has 6 translations listed for "confound": проклина́ть, пу́тать, сбива́ть с толку, смешивать, ухудшать, посрамлять.
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