durchkreuzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• balk noun A strip of land left unploughed between fields.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• scotch noun Whisky distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley.
• thwart verb To stop someone from succeeding at a plan; to block or frustrate it.
• traverse verb To travel across or through something, often under difficult conditions.

Senses

durchkreuzen is used for these senses in English:

• confound To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
• rule out (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
• scotch (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• traverse (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

balk — full definition

1. noun A strip of land left unploughed between fields.
2. noun The wall of soil left standing at the side of a dig.
3. noun A large squared piece of timber used as a beam in building, for example to hold up a loft.
4. noun Something that stops or disappoints someone; an obstacle.

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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