durchkreuzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• balk noun An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
• 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 An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
2. noun The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
3. noun Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
4. noun A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

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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