confound

Speech parts

1. confound - Noun

2. confound - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

fox throw confuse befuddle fuddle bedevil discombobulate buffalo ravel evert daze faze err disorient boggle
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Antonyms

see support show style twig revaluation
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Hypernyms

mistake be misidentify

Hyponyms

vex get disorient beat stick pose

Phrases with the word

confound with

Derivatives

confounded confounding

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

conformity of views confortation Conforti confound it confound with confoundable