Translation for "mystify" to spanish

Mystify

verb

• mistificar
• desconcertar
• desorientar
• dejar perplejo por

Translation examples

mistificar verb

History is full of fabrications, and we tend to mystify historical figures.
La Historia está llena de invenciones, Y tendemos a mistificar las figuras históricas.

He liked to mystify, to hoax people.
Le gustaba mistificar, a la gente de engaño.

The patriarchal culture tends to mystify the vagina.
La cultura patriarcal tiende a mistificar la vagina.

I would wager it has been only a few years since you savages ceased to be mystified by fire!
¡Podría apostar, que sólo hace unos cuantos años que vosotros los salvajes, habéis dejado de mistificaros con fuego!

desconcertar verb

* For a vista that'll mystify ya *
* Por un panorama que te va a desconcertar *

And that really mystified him;
Y aquello le terminó de desconcertar;

And he thought of a plan—simple, audacious and, as he fancied, definitely mystifying.
Y pensó un audaz y sencillo plan con el cual pensaba desconcertar a todos.

Anya glanced at her occasionally, as though she were mystified by how she’d gotten there.
Anya la miraba de vez en cuando, como si le desconcertara que estuviera allí.

Come, I’ll completely mystify him.” “No, don’t,” replied Martin, “what’s the use?”
Ven, lo desconcertaré por completo. —No, no lo hagas —replicó Martin—. ¿De qué sirve?

Gabriel shook his head, squinting slightly as if mystified by the statement.
Gabriel negó con la cabeza, entrecerrando los ojos como si aquella declaración lo desconcertara.

Edeard held up his hands apologetically, as if mystified by what he was witnessing.
Edeard levantó las manos a modo de disculpa, como si le desconcertara lo que estaba presenciando.

To leave a hornet’s nest behind? – mystified traders, landlords, the letting agents, the village gossip mill?
¿Para desconcertar a los comerciantes, los dueños de la finca, la agencia inmobiliaria, y dar pábulo a los rumores en el pueblo?

He was awed as he held it out to Coletta, holding it out in his two hands as though it were an animal that mystified him.
Se lo ofreció a Coletta con temor y respeto, sujetándolo con las dos manos como si fuera un animal que lo desconcertara.

All she could think of was that she loved him—everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.
Sólo conseguía pensar que le amaba…, que amaba todo en él, desde la punta de sus cabellos dorados hasta sus elegantes botas oscuras; amaba su risa aunque la desconcertara a veces, y sus extraños silencios.