Confounding can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| confounding - that confounds or contradicts or confuses | ||
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" |
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| 1. | adj. | Try to disassociate all the confounding variables. | |
| 2. | verb | When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. | |
| 3. | 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. | |
| 4. | verb | Come ye, therefore, let us go down and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. | |
| 5. | verb | When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. | |
| 6. | 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. | |
| 7. | 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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| adj. | |
| Try to disassociate all the confounding variables. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |