confounded; confounding; confounds
Definition of confound
1
: to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity
tactics to confound the enemy
2a
: refute
sought to confound his arguments
b
: to put to shame : discomfit
a performance that confounded the critics
3
: damn
4a
: to fail to discern differences between : mix up
They implored Charles not to confound the innocent with the guilty …— T. B. Macaulay
b
: to increase the confusion of
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The first known use of confound was in the 14th century
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