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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kon-found, kuhn-; for 6 usually kon-found
Phonetic Transcription : kɒnˈfaʊnd, kən-; for 6 usually ˈkɒnˈfaʊnd



Definition of confound

Origin :
  • c.1300, "make uneasy, abash," from Anglo-French confoundre, Old French confondre (12c.) "crush, ruin, disgrace, throw into disorder," from Latin confundere "to confuse," literally "to pour together, mix, mingle," from com- "together" (see com-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)).
  • The figurative sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in Latin, passed into French and thence into Middle English, where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in English from c.1300. Meaning "perplex" is late 14c. The Latin past participle confusus, meanwhile, became confused (q.v.).
  • verb confuse
Example sentences :
  • But no—confound it—there was some one coming down the avenue!
  • Extract from : « The Tenant of Wildfell Hall » by Anne Bronte
  • Besides, confound it, Tom, you could be useful to me in a hundred ways.'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Confound her, it was like her pale face to be wandering up and down the house!
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • It is not essential formally and absolutely to confound will with desire.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • Why should I look him up, confound him—he hadn't bothered his head about me.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • I rejoice in the change; but we must not confound names with things.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • It's my experience that you've always got to, consider the Union, confound them!
  • Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • There is no poisonous species with which one is likely to confound it.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • But neither must we confound the theories or aspects of morality with the origin of our moral ideas.
  • Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
  • But, confound it, Annette, we've been calling on those people all summer.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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