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confounding

verb

Meaning

  1. To perplex or puzzle.
  2. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
  3. To make something worse.
  4. To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
  5. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
  6. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
  7. The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
  8. The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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