confound in English

verb

1

cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations.

the inflation figure confounded economic analysts

synonyms: amaze, astonish, dumbfound, stagger, surprise, startle, stun, throw, shake, discompose, bewilder, bedazzle, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, take aback, shake up, catch off balance, flabbergast, blow someone's mind, blow away, flummox, faze, stump, beat, fox, discombobulate

2

mix up (something) with something else so that the individual elements become difficult to distinguish.

'nuke' is now a cooking technique, as microwave radiation is confounded with nuclear radiation

exclamation

1

used to express anger or annoyance.

oh, confound it, where is the thing?

verb

amaze, astonish, dumbfound, stagger, surprise, startle, stun, throw, shake, discompose, bewilder, bedazzle, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, take aback, shake up, catch off balance, flabbergast, blow someone's mind, blow away, flummox, faze, stump, beat, fox, discombobulate
contradict, counter, invalidate, negate, go against, quash, explode, demolish, shoot down, destroy, disprove, poke holes in
befuddle, throw, bedevil, confuse, fuddle, discombobulate, fox
confuse

Use "confound" in a sentence

1. Confound [ God confound ] it [ you ] !

2. Don't confound right with wrong!

3. Confound that silly fool!

4. Don't confound public affairs with private ones.

5. As verbs the difference between confound and Confuscate is that confound is to confuse; to mix up; to puzzle while Confuscate is to confuse, confound, or perplex

6. Confusticate - to confuse, confound or perplex

7. Confound you, what do you mean?

8. Thus did ordinary children confound the experts.

9. Use their expectations and then confound them.

10. Awhape - To confound; to terrify; to amaze

11. Dumfounded, To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.

12. And Time that gave , doth now his confound.

13. Don't confound the means with the end.

14. Placed there to confront and confound him.

15. Awhape - To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly

16. The choice of Governor may confound us all.

17. Awhape: To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly

18. Do not confound the means with the ends.

19. Awhape means: To confound; to terrify; to amaze

20. The traditional monument has tended to confound gender politics.

21. Confound him , what does he mean by dogging me?

22. It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

23. Hell and the devil confound it, this was his home!

24. As verbs the difference between Confuscate and confusticate is that Confuscate is to confuse, confound, or perplex while confusticate is (transitiveinformalchieflyus) to confuse, confound or perplex.

25. As verbs the difference between confuscate and Confusticate is that confuscate is to confuse, confound, or perplex while Confusticate is (transitiveinformalchieflyus) to confuse, confound or perplex.

26. Confusticate meaning (informal, chiefly US) To confuse, confound, or perplex.

27. What does Awhape mean? (obsolete) To confound; to terrify; to amaze

28. Confusticate (Verb) To confuse, confound or perplex. How to pronounce Confusticate?

29. 11 synonyms for Abash: chagrin, confound, confuse, discomfit, discomfort, disconcert, discountenance

30. It further demonstrates how mental and spiritual darkness confound the people’s sense of values.

31. Confuscate (Verb) to confuse, confound, perplex; to complicate. How to pronounce Confuscate?

32. He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents.

33. Confuscate meaning Alternative form of Confusticate: to confuse, confound, perplex; to complicate.

34. Confuscate meaning Alternative form of confusticate: to confuse, confound, perplex; to complicate.

35. Confound and put to shame those who have devised evil against us.

36. The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.

37. Abash is a stronger word than confuse, but not so strong as confound

38. He did not start off as a rebel seeking out Peripatetics to confound.

39. Confusticate (v.) "confound, confuse," 1852, a fantastical mock-Latin American English coinage from confound or confuse, originally in "Negro dialect" passages in works such as "J

40. Synonyms for Convolute include confuse, cloud, obscure, muddle, muddy, becloud, befog, blur, confound and fog

41. Synonyms for Befuddle include baffle, confound, confuse, bemuse, mystify, perplex, puzzle, bewilder, flummox and stupefy

42. The 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.

43. Confound it, who am I to hold up my nose in such a fashion?

44. 24 synonyms for Bemuse: puzzle, stun, confuse, overwhelm, stump, baffle, bewilder, muddle, daze, confound

45. Paper institute character, be not people place desire character, confound right and wrong, and white confuse.

46. He has utilized the pictorial logic of the photograph to confound rather than to clarify space.

47. Synonyms for Bemuse include confuse, puzzle, bewilder, muddle, perplex, baffle, confound, addle, flummox and mystify

48. Synonyms for Abash include confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify and nonplus

49. Synonyms for Confusticate include confuscate, confuse, confound, perplex, bewilder, puzzle, baffle, bemuse, dumbfound and mystify

50. Synonyms for Becloud include obscure, muddy, confuse, obfuscate, blur, cloud, confound, mystify, perplex and puzzle