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Перевод: confound
[глагол]
приводить в смущение; смешивать; ставить в тупик; поражать; спутывать; разрушать; охуевать [неценз.]
Тезаурус:
- Tennis: David Irvine sees the French Open champion continue to confound his doubters at Wembley Chang thriving in fast company.
- In such inversions of social regard we can again see how movement will tend to confound the police preference for and reliance on a rigidly maintained classificatory world.
- It may also prove necessary to confound the belief that the local community and environment cannot provide a suitable learning medium.
- An opinion poll conducted among passengers by driver Tony Norris proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Conservatives will confound the nation on Thursday.
- As Noel Annan wrote in his life of Leslie Stephen: "The ingenuity in argument, the subtlety in drawing distinctions, the dexterous prevarications, the imperative reasons for procrastination, perpetually bewilder and confound the novice in university administration."
- Morgan and Smith 1989), where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above, the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants.
- Angel Aye, that villain malign I will catch and confound - With my little grey cells!"
- The experience of watching my late husband's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson's disease (one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups, quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as "an attempt to hijack government legislation".
- there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries.
- Ashcroft's efforts in recent seasons have been worthy of Houdini, but this year, if Sheffield Eagles continue to confound their doubters, Salford could have the strongest claim on the spare relegation place.
- It is essential not to confound him with the greater Frederick II (Hohenstaufen), holy Roman emperor from 1215 to 1250, and before that (1198-;1212) king of Sicily as Frederick I. For this great figure, author of The Book of the Falcon and a hero for Dante as well as Pound, is to figure portentously in the Thrones cantos to come as we shall see.
- It was on this basis that the defence were able to confound the evidence of the prosecution and gain Leonard Arthur his reprieve.
- From beautiful alpaca wool jumpers to a handcrafted rocking chair - from puzzles that'll confound to a traditional tribal face mask
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