saattaa hämilleen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abash verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
• 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

1. verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
2. verb To become flustered or ashamed.

confound — full definition

1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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