confound
verb · nounB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
To perplex or puzzle.
Đồng nghĩa: puzzle
- 2.
To stun or amaze.
- 3.
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
Đồng nghĩa: confuse, mix up, addle, baffle, lose, embroil, stick, stump, baffound, bamboozle, bedevil, befuddle, throw, bemud, bemuse, bewilder, bumfuzzle, complicate, confound, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, blind, dumbfound, entangle, ferhoodle, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flurry, fluster, flummox, fuddle, jumble, knot, mix up, muddle, muddy, ravel, perplex, puzzle
- 4.
(proscribed, sometimes)(sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
Don't confound the situation by yelling.
- 5.
To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- 6.
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
His actions confounded the skeptics.
- 7.
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon, I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
- 8.
(dated)To damn (a mild oath).
Confound you!
Confound the lady!
- 9.
(archaic)To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(statistics) A confounding variable.
Đồng nghĩa: confounder
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ine-pro From Middle English confounden (destroy, ruin, perplex), from cunfundre and Old French confondre, from Latin cōnfundō (to mingle, mix together). Related to found (to melt (metals in a foundry)) (but not to found (to start), nor to find) and to fusion.