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Definition of Confound

Confound

  1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
  2. To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
  3. To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
  4. To destroy; to ruin; to waste.

Confound Quotations

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.
Geraldine Brooks

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
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Confound Translations

confound in French is confondent, confondez, confonds, confondons
confound in German is verwechseln

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