saattaa hämilleen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abash verb To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
- confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
Senses
saattaa hämilleen is used for these senses in English:
- abash (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]
- confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- confuse (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
abash — full definition
- verb To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
- verb To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
confound — full definition
- verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
- verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
- noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").