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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Confound \Con*found"\ (k[o^]n*found"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Confounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confounding}.] [F. confondre, fr. L. confundere, -fusum, to pour together; con- + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt, and cf. {Confuse}.]
1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute. --Locke.
Let us go down, and there confound their language. --Gen. xi. 7.
2. To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
They [the tinkers] were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies. --Macaulay.
3. To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
The gods confound... The Athenians both within and out that wall. --Shak.
They trusted in thee and were not confounded. --Ps. xxii. 5.
So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say. --Milton.
4. To destroy; to ruin; to waste. [Obs.]
One man's lust these many lives confounds. --Shak.
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour? --Shak.
Syn: To abash; confuse; baffle; dismay; astonish; defeat; terrify; mix; blend; intermingle. See {Abash}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Confounded \Con*found"ed\, adjective
1. Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered.
Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
A cloudy and confounded philosopher. --Cudworth.
2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. [Colloq.]
He was a most confounded tory. --Swift.
The tongue of that confounded woman. --Sir. W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
confounded
adjective: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" [syn: {baffled}, {befuddled}, {bemused}, {bewildered}, {confused}, {lost}, {mazed}, {mixed-up}, {at sea}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "confounded": Byzantine, absolute, addled, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, all up with, amazed, astonished, astounded, at a loss, at gaze, awed, awestruck, baffled, balled up, bamboozled, beat, beaten, beguiled, belied, bested, bewildered, bewitched, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, breathless, buffaloed, captivated, complex, complicated, confused, confuted, convoluted, crabbed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, daedal, danged, darned, dashed, dazed, defeated, deflated, denied, deuced, devious, discarded, discomfited, discredited, dismayed, dismissed, disproved, disputed, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, elaborate, embrangled, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entangled, enthralled, entranced, execrable, exploded, exposed, fallen, fascinated, fixed, flabbergasted, floored, fouled up, fuddled, gaping, gauping, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, hors de combat, hypnotized, implicated, impugned, in a dilemma, in awe, in awe of, in suspense, infernal, intricate, invalidated, involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lambasted, lathered, licked, lost in wonder, loused up, many-faceted, marveling, matted, mazy, meandering, mesmerized, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified, negated, negatived, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the skids, open-eyed, openmouthed, out-and-out, outdone, outright, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perplexed, popeyed, punctured, put to rout, puzzled, ramified, rank, rapt in wonder, refuted, rejected, roundabout, routed, ruddy, ruined, scattered, screwed up, settled, shocked, shown up, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, snarled, spellbound, staggered, stampeded, staring, straight-out, stuck, stumped, stupefied, subtle, surprised, tangled, tangly, thrown, thunderstruck, trimmed, trounced, twisted, under a charm, undone, unmitigated, upset, whelmed, whipped, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, worsted
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