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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

  1. verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
  2. verb To become flustered or ashamed.

befuddle — full definition

  1. verb To make someone feel confused or unable to think straight.
  2. verb To make someone dazed or unsteady, especially through drink.
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