confondere — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abash verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
- befuddle verb To make someone feel confused or unable to think straight.
- bemuse verb To make someone feel puzzled or confused.
- bewilder verb To make someone feel confused, especially when faced with lots of options.
- conflate verb To bring two or more things together as one.
- confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
- entangle verb To twist or wind things together so tightly that they become hard to separate.
- mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.
- overwhelm verb To completely overpower someone or something, whether physically or emotionally.
- stupefy verb To make someone's mind dull and slow to react, as if in a daze.
Senses
confondere is used for these senses in English:
- abash (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]
- befuddle (transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone).
- bemuse (transitive) To confuse or bewilder.
- conflate (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
- entangle (transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
- mistake (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- stupefy (transitive, especially, law) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.
abash — full definition
- verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
- verb To become flustered or ashamed.
befuddle — full definition
- verb To make someone feel confused or unable to think straight.
- verb To make someone dazed or unsteady, especially through drink.
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