con|found «kon FOWND, kuhn- for 1-3, 5-7; KON FOWND for 4 », transitive verb.
1. to confuse; perplex: »
The people on the island were frightened and confounded by the violence of the storm. Confusion worse confounded (Milton).
2. to be unable to tell apart: »
The teachers in school confounded the twins until one had to wear glasses.
3. to surprise and puzzle; disconcert: »
He was…confounded by incessant noise, and crowds, and hurry (Samuel Johnson).
4. to damn: »
Confound your impudence.
5. Archaic. to make uneasy and ashamed; abash: »
Silent, and in face confounded long they sate, as strucken mute (Milton).
6. Archaic. to defeat; overthrow.
7. Obsolete. to confute.
8. Obsolete. to spoil; waste.
╂[< Old French confondre < Latin cōnfundere < com- together + fundere pour]
–con|found´er, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.