запу́тать — meaning in English
zaputat
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English meaning
- confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
- ensnare verb To catch someone or something in a trap.
- involve verb To include something as a necessary part.
- obfuscate verb To make something unclear or hard to understand, usually on purpose and in order to hide the truth.
- tangle verb To twist together into a knotted, confused mass.
Senses
запу́тать is used for these senses in English:
- confuse (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- ensnare (figurative) To entangle; to enmesh.
- involve To make (something) intricate; to complicate.
- obfuscate To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
- tangle (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- tangle (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
confuse — full definition
- verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
- verb To mistake one thing for another.
- verb To make someone feel embarrassed or flustered.
ensnare — full definition
- verb To catch someone or something in a trap.
- verb To tangle something up so that it is hard to get free of.
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