Associations to the word «Confound»

CONFOUND, verb. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.

CONFOUND, verb. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

CONFOUND, verb. To make something worse.

CONFOUND, verb. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

CONFOUND, verb. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

CONFOUND, verb. (dated) To damn (a mild oath).

CONFOUND, verb. (archaic) To bring to ruination.

CONFOUND, verb. To stun, amaze

CONFOUND, noun. (statistics) a confounding variable

CONFOUND, verb. 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, verb. Mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary".