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What is the verb for confounded?

What's the verb for confounded? Here's the word you're looking for.

confound
  1. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
  2. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
  3. To make something worse.
  4. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
  5. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
  6. (archaic) To bring to ruination.
  7. To stun, amaze
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Theology can confound us with theories too ingenious to disprove.”
      “Then you distort that in some way, and so confound the reader's expectation.”
      “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.”
confounded
confounding
confounds
confoundeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of confound
confoundest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of confound
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