verwechseln — meaning in English

English meaning

• conflate verb To bring two or more things together as one.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
• mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.

Senses

verwechseln is used for these senses in English:

• conflate (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
• confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
• confuse (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
• mistake (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

conflate — full definition

1. verb To bring two or more things together as one.
2. verb To wrongly treat two different things as if they were the same.
3. verb To link two things together on purpose to create a false impression.

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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