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To cause bewilderment or astonishment in someone
“Theology can confound us with theories too ingenious to disprove.”
To demonstrate or expose to the falsehood of something
“Then you distort that in some way, and so confound the reader's expectation.”
To disturb the composure of
“In addition to cherishing his cat, contriving to confound his parents with the latest internet conspiracy theories, and cohabitating with his phone, he's also taken to Karaoke.”
To wrongly interpret or identify something
“I have embarrassingly managed to confound the two actors by virtue of their last names.”
To throw into disorder
“But to make that inference the source of my knowledge of the reality is to reason backwards, to confound the order of thought with the order of things.”
To cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck
To make something more complex
To fail to understand (something) correctly
(beggar belief) To defy or be beyond that which can be believed
To administer wrongly or badly
To frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
To exhibit contradictions, fallacies, or illogicality in a perplexing and unintelligible manner
To be victorious over
To make worse or more severe
(statistics) Plural for a confounding variable
“This is a perfect example of a confound. It is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor or the other.”
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