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embrouiller — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bamboozle verb To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  • flummox verb To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
  • fluster verb To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
  • muddle verb To mix things up in a confusing way, or to think in a confused, unclear manner.
  • obfuscate verb To make something unclear or hard to understand, usually on purpose and in order to hide the truth.

Senses

embrouiller is used for these senses in English:

  • bamboozle (transitive, informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  • flummox (transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
  • fluster To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
  • muddle To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
  • obfuscate To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.

bamboozle — full definition

  1. verb To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  2. verb To confuse, frustrate or perplex.

flummox — full definition

  1. verb To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
  2. verb To give in, to give up, to collapse.

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