con|found

con|found
con|found «kon FOWND, kuhn- for 1-3, 5-7; KON FOWND for 4 », transitive verb.
1. to confuse; perplex: »

The people on the island were frightened and confounded by the violence of the storm. Confusion worse confounded (Milton).

2. to be unable to tell apart: »

The teachers in school confounded the twins until one had to wear glasses.

3. to surprise and puzzle; disconcert: »

He was…confounded by incessant noise, and crowds, and hurry (Samuel Johnson).

4. to damn: »

Confound your impudence.

5. Archaic. to make uneasy and ashamed; abash: »

Silent, and in face confounded long they sate, as strucken mute (Milton).

6. Archaic. to defeat; overthrow.
7. Obsolete. to confute.
8. Obsolete. to spoil; waste.
╂[< Old French confondre < Latin cōnfundere < com- together + fundere pour]
–con|found´er, noun.

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