Meaning & use
Confounds
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Causes surprise or confusion in someone by being unexpected or hard to understand; mixes up or fails to distinguish between things.
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The magician's trick still confounds even experienced illusionists.
The report confounds two separate issues as though they were one.
A note on using this word
In statistics, a "confounding variable" is one that obscures the true relationship between two other variables, a specialized use of this same root idea.
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