CONFOUND
confound
Noun
- a confounding variable
Verb
- To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- To make something worse.
- Don't confound the situation by yelling.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- His actions confounded the skeptics.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To damn (a mild oath).
- Confound you!
- Confound the lady!
- To bring to ruination.
- To stun, amaze
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