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verfluchen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  • curse noun A spell or supernatural force believed to bring harm or bad luck.
  • damn interjection Used to express anger, frustration, or surprise.
  • damning adj Strongly suggesting guilt or wrongdoing; hard to explain away.

Senses

verfluchen is used for these senses in English:

  • confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
  • confound To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
  • confound To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
  • damn To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  • damn (sometimes, vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
  • damning A condemnation.

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").

curse — full definition

  1. noun A spell or supernatural force believed to bring harm or bad luck.
  2. noun A rude or offensive word used to express anger.
  3. verb To wish harm on someone, or to swear angrily.

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