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/ˈkɑnˌfaʊnd, kɑnˈfaʊnd, kənˈfaʊnd/
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VERB
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be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
These questions confuse even the experts
This question befuddled even the teacher
This question completely threw me -
mistake one thing for another
you are confusing me with the other candidate
I mistook her for the secretary
How To Use confound In A Sentence
- The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
- [42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge! The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
- These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
- Thus residual confounding could not be completely excluded, and the findings could not assign causality.
- Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
- On one occasion, in hospital after an operation, Pegg awoke from his anaesthetically induced coma an hour too early, confounding doctors until it was realised he must have overheard a fellow patient on the ward watching The Guardian World News
- So again like a good politician I shall try to tailor my ideology to make it sound more attuned to a reality that surprises and confounds me.
- Why have those early predictions been confounded? Times, Sunday Times
- But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- The 3, 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.