пу́тать — meaning in English

English meaning

• conflate verb To combine or mix together.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
• muss verb To make something untidy or messy, especially hair or clothing.

Senses

пу́тать 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 puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
• confuse (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
• muss (transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

conflate — full definition

1. verb To combine or mix together.
2. verb To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
3. verb To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.

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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