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confound

confound (third-person singular simple present confounds, present participle confounding, simple past and past participle confounded)

1. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
   • 1830, Joseph Smith, Jr., Book of Mormon: Ether, i, 34,

     And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.

2. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
   • 1651 (Latin edition 1642), Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (Latin title) Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (English),

     Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.

3. To make something worse.

   Dont confound the situation by yelling.

   • 1983, Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy,

     While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his ""Latin American macho attitude."" To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.

4. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

   His actions confounded the skeptics.

5. To defeat.
   • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, 1 Corinthians, i, 27,

     But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

6. To damn.

   Confound you!

   Confound the lady!

   • 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle, My Friend the Murderer in The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories,

     ""Number 43 is no better, Doctor,"" said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.

     ""Confound 43!"" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher.

7. To frustrate, to thwart.
   • Traditional, date and author unknown, God Save the Queen,

     O Lord, our God, arise, / Scatter thine enemies, / And make them fall / Confound their politics, / Frustrate their knavish tricks, / On thee our hopes we fix: / God save us all.

   • 1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,

     I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.

8. (archaic) To bring to ruination.

Definizione dizionario confound

	confondere
	To mistake one thing for another.

sconcertare

Altri significati:

to cause to be ashamed

To frustrate, to thwart.

to bring to ruination

To make something worse.

To damn.

to frustrate

to make something worse

to defeat

To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.

to damn

To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

To defeat.

to confuse right and wrong

to confuse

(archaic) To bring to ruination.

To cause to be ashamed; to abash.