Confound
To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
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Confound Quotations
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
William Wycherley
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
John Millington Synge
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry Wotton
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Confound Translations
confound in French is confondent, confondez, confonds, confondons
confound in German is verwechseln
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