confound

confound englannista suomeksi

1. häkellyttää, hämmästyttää

2. sekoittaa keskenään

0. Verbi

1. hämmästyttää, saattaa hämilleen">saattaa hämilleen

2. sekoittaa

3. kirota

3. Substantiivi

confound englanniksi

1. To perplex or puzzle.

(syn)

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1830|author=Joseph Smith, Jr.|title=of Mormon (1981)/Ether|Book of Mormon: Ether|section=i, 34

3. (quote-journal)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jun/29/roger-federer-wimbledon-2012-julien-benneteau|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115072742/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jun/29/roger-federer-wimbledon-2012-julien-benneteau|archivedate=15 November 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 June 2012|passage=The fightback when it came was in the Federer|Roger Federer fashion: unfussy, filled with classy strokes from the back with perfectly timed interventions at the net that confounded his opponent. The third set passed in a bit of a blur, the fourth, which led to the second tie-break, was the most dramatic of the match.

4. To stun or amaze.

5. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

6. 1651 (Latin edition 1642), Hobbes|Thomas Hobbes, s:De Cive/Chapter XIV|''De Cive'' (Latin title) ''Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society'' (English),

Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.

7. To make something worse.

(ux)

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1983|author=Carol M. Anderson; Susan Stewart|title=Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy

9. To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.

10. (quote-book)|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.72523/page/195/mode/1up

11. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

12. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

13. (RQ:King James Version)

14. (quote-journal)

15. 1848 February 12, Mitchel|John Mitchel, Irishman|The United Irishman, ''to Lord Clarendon, United Irishman, 1848|Letter to Lord Clarendon'',

I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.

16. To damn (''a mild oath'').

17. {{quote-text|en|year=1882|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|chapter=Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories/My Friend the Murderer|My Friend the Murderer|title=The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories

18. (RQ:Sewell Black Beauty)"

19. To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

20. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

21. (RQ:Swift Gulliver)

22. A confounding variable.

23. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=C. James Goodwin|title=Research In Psychology: Methods and Design|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470522783|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=eNsVUGTMcDoC&lpg=PA175&dq=%22a%20confound%22&pg=PA175v=onepage&q=%22a%20confound%22&f=false|page=175