Confound can be categorized as a verb.
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confound - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" | ||
confound - mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" | ||
Noun |
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confound - A confounding variable. |
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1. | verb | When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. | |
2. | verb | It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. | |
3. | verb | Come ye, therefore, let us go down and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. | |
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. | |
Come ye, therefore, let us go down and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. |