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So surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react
“Gibbons was frowning, clearly confounded by her answer.”
Feeling confused or bewildered mentally
“As Guido finished saying those words of protest, everyone was confounded by the loud booming sound.”
Deserving of condemnation or execration
“Last night, some confounded fellow was loafing about here and I thought that he had come back again.”
Causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger
To a complete or absolute degree
Based on, or resulting from, a misunderstanding or faulty judgment
To have made something more complex
To have thrown into a state of distress marked by confusion
“In addition to cherishing his cat, contriving to confound his parents with the latest internet conspiracy theories, and cohabitating with his phone, he's also taken to Karaoke.”
To have mistaken something for something else
“I have embarrassingly managed to confound the two actors by virtue of their last names.”
Past tense for to cause bewilderment or astonishment in someone
“Theology can confound us with theories too ingenious to disprove.”
Past tense for to demonstrate or expose to the falsehood of something
“Then you distort that in some way, and so confound the reader's expectation.”
Past tense for to throw into disorder
“But to make that inference the source of my knowledge of the reality is to reason backwards, to confound the order of thought with the order of things.”
Past tense for to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck
Past tense for to fail to understand (something) correctly
(beggar belief) Past tense for to defy or be beyond that which can be believed
Past tense for to administer wrongly or badly
Past tense for to frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
Past tense for to exhibit contradictions, fallacies, or illogicality in a perplexing and unintelligible manner
Past tense for to be victorious over
Past tense for to make worse or more severe
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