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verb

Confound v. t. (past & past part. confounded; pres. part. confounding)

1.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse. "They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute." "Let us go down, and there confound their language."

2.

To mistake for another; to identify falsely. "They (the tinkers) were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies."

3.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay. "The gods confound... The Athenians both within and out that wall." "They trusted in thee and were not confounded." "So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say."

4.

To destroy; to ruin; to waste. (Obs.) "One man's lust these many lives confounds." "How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour?"

Synonyms: To abash; confuse; baffle; dismay; astonish; defeat; terrify; mix; blend; intermingle. See Abash.

adjective

Confounded adj.

1.

Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered.

Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up. "A cloudy and confounded philosopher."

2.

Excessive; extreme; abominable. (Colloq.) "He was a most confounded tory." "The tongue of that confounded woman."

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Etymology of 'Confounded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Confounded" Quotes from Famous Books

... good-humoured satire upon these and similar characteristics of Teutonic scholarship and speculation; as in the many amusing criticisms which are passed upon Teufelsdroeckh's volume as a sort of "mad banquet wherein all courses have been confounded;" in the burlesque parade of the professor's "omniverous reading" (e.g., Book I, Chap. V); and in the whole amazing episode of the "six considerable paper bags," out of the chaotic contents of which the distracted editor in search of "biographic documents" has to make what he can. ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... the two, in their mutual relations, shows clearly that they were both deposited by the same water-system within the same basin, but at different levels. Here and there the clay formation has so pale and grayish a tint, that it may be confounded with the mud deposits of the river. These latter, however, never rise so high as the ochraceous clay, but are everywhere confined within the limits of high and low water. The islands also in the main course of the Amazons ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various

... reached the end of my sentence, I became aware of something ominous in the faces of the guests. I felt I had said something which I had better have left unsaid, and that for some unexplained reason my words had evoked a general consternation. I sat confounded, not daring to utter another syllable, and for at least two whole minutes there was dead silence round the table. Then Captain Prendergast came to ...

— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various

... you mean to say that because of what has passed you object to meet Mr Grey, I can only tell you it's nonsense,—confounded nonsense. If he chooses to come there can be no reason why ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

... Imaginary for imaginative, or your powers of fancy. Active and passive words are by Shakespeare frequently confounded.] ...

— King Henry the Fifth - Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre • William Shakespeare

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