Usually means: Mix up, causing confusion, surprise.
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  1. confound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confound, confound: Wordnik
  7. confound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confound: Wiktionary
  9. confound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confound, confound: Dictionary.com
  13. confound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. confound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Confound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confound: Rhymezone
  17. confound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. confound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. confound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. confound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. confound: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. confound: Free Dictionary

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  1. CONFOUND: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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  1. Confound: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To perplex or puzzle.
verb:  To stun or amaze.
verb:  To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
verb:  (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
verb:  To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
verb:  To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
verb:  To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
verb:  (dated) To damn (a mild oath).
verb:  (archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
noun:  (statistics) A confounding variable.

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