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запутать — meaning in English

zaputat

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English meaning

  • confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
  • ensnare verb To entrap; to catch in a snare or 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

запутать 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

  1. verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
  2. verb To mistake one thing for another.
  3. verb To make someone feel embarrassed or flustered.

ensnare — full definition

  1. verb To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
  2. verb To entangle; to enmesh.

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