What part of speech is confound?

Confound can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. confound is a verb, present, 1st person singular of confound (infinitive).
  • 2. confound is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does confound mean?

Definitions

Verb

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

confound - A confounding variable.

Examples of confound

#   Sentence  
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.
Sentence  
verb
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.

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