Antonyms for confound

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kon-found, kuhn-; for 6 usually kon-found

Phonetic Transcription : kɒnˈfaʊnd, kən-; for 6 usually ˈkɒnˈfaʊnd

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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.).

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Synonyms for confound