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