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Confounded   /kənfˈaʊndɪd/   Listen
Confounded

adjective
1.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"



Confound

verb
(past & past part. confounded; pres. part. confounding)
1.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
2.
Mistake one thing for another.  Synonym: confuse.  "I mistook her for the secretary"






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"Confounded" Quotes from Famous Books



... literary employment, seems, for the time at least, rather to damp and contract, than to enlarge and invigorate, the genius. The writer is accustomed to see his performances answer the mere mercantile purpose of the day, and confounded with those of persons to whom he is secretly conscious of a superiority. No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, ...
— Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman • William Godwin

... a woman had ruined Milt Dale's peace, had confounded his philosophy of self-sufficient, lonely happiness in the solitude of the wilds, had forced him to come face to face with his soul and the ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey

... Jehovah helpeth me, therefore I am not confounded, therefore I make my face like a flint, and I know that I am not ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg

... put anything. There ought to be a kind of shaving tray attached to every bath, which you could swing in on a flexible arm, complete with mirror and soap and strop, new blades and shaving-papers and all the other confounded paraphernalia. Then, I think, shaving would be almost tolerable, and there wouldn't be so many of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 31, 1920 • Various

... think it was," Pliny answered, laughing a little though at Tode's tone. "I've a confounded sick headache, that's ...
— Three People • Pansy


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