1. confound - Noun
2. confound - Verb
To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. Maria Montessori
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her. John Millington Synge
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. George Eliot
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. Victor Hugo
Confound those who have anticipated us in what we would have said. Latin Proverb