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сме́шивать — meaning in English

smeshivat

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English meaning

  • compound noun A fenced or walled area containing a group of buildings, often used for security or living quarters.
  • confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  • confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
  • incorporate verb To include something as a part of a larger whole.
  • jumble verb To mix things up in a disorganised or confused way.
  • meddle verb To interfere in matters that are not one's concern.
  • mingle verb To move around and talk casually with different people at a social gathering.
  • mix verb To combine two or more substances or things together so they blend.

Senses

сме́шивать is used for these senses in English:

  • compound (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
  • confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
  • confuse (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
  • incorporate (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
  • intersperse To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other.
  • jumble (transitive) To mix or confuse.
  • meddle (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. [14th–17th c.]
  • mingle (transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.

compound — full definition

  1. noun A fenced or walled area containing a group of buildings, often used for security or living quarters.
  2. adjective Made up of two or more parts or elements combined.
  3. verb To combine different elements or ingredients into one substance.
  4. verb To make a problem worse by adding to it.
  5. verb (finance) To calculate interest on both the original amount and the interest already earned.

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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