| Principales traductions |
| Français | Anglais |
| confondre⇒ vtr | (ne pas distinguer) (informal) | get [sb] mixed up, get [sth] mixed up v expr |
| confuse⇒ vtr |
| mistake⇒ vtr |
| (ideas, issues) | conflate⇒ vtr |
| Le professeur confond encore les jumelles de sa classe. |
| The teacher still gets the twins in his class mixed up. |
| confondre vtr | (démasquer) | foil⇒ vtr |
| (literary) | thwart⇒ vtr |
| confound⇒ vtr |
| Il est facile pour le professeur de confondre le menteur. |
| It's easy for the teacher to foil the liar. |
| confondre vtr | (décontenancer) | baffle⇒, confound⇒ vtr |
| (figurative, informal) | throw⇒ vtr |
| Son agressivité a confondu tous ses proches. |
| His aggression baffled his friends and family. |
| confondre vtr | (mêler, fusionner) | combine⇒ vtr |
| J'ai décidé de confondre ces deux réunions pour ne faire qu'un seul déplacement. |
| I've decided to combine the two meetings so that I only have to travel once. |
| se confondre⇒ v pron | (ne plus distinguer) | become mixed up vi + adj |
| become confused vi + adj |
| no longer be clear v expr |
| L'enchaînement des faits se confondait dans son esprit. |
| The sequence of events was becoming mixed up in his mind. |
| The sequence of events was becoming confused in his mind. |
| The sequence of events was no longer clear in his mind. |
| se confondre v pron | (se mêler) | blend into each other, blend into one another v expr |
| blend⇒, merge⇒ vi |
| Sur cette photo, l'eau du lac et le ciel se confondent. |
| In this photo, the water of the lake and the sky blend into each other. |
| se confondre avec [qch] v pron + prép | (se mêler) | merge into [sth], blend into [sth] vi + prep |
| Sur ce tableau, le ciel se confond avec la mer. |
| In this painting, the sky merges (or: blends) into the sea. |
| se confondre v pron | Géométrie (se superposer, être identiques) | coincide⇒ vi |
| be equal vi + adj |
| Dans un triangle équilatéral, la hauteur, la médiane et la bissectrice se confondent. |
| In an equilateral triangle, the altitude, the median and the bisector are equal. |
