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con⋅found

  [kon-found, kuhn-; for 6 usually kon-found]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to perplex or amaze, esp. by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
2. to throw into confusion or disorder: The revolution confounded the people.
3. to throw into increased confusion or disorder.
4. to treat or regard erroneously as identical; mix or associate by mistake: truth confounded with error.
5. to mingle so that the elements cannot be distinguished or separated.
6. to damn (used in mild imprecations): Confound it!
7. to contradict or refute: to confound their arguments.
8. to put to shame; abash.
9. Archaic.
a. to defeat or overthrow.
b. to bring to ruin or naught.
10. Obsolete. to spend uselessly; waste.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME conf(o)unden < AF confoundre < L confundere to mix, equiv. to con- con- + fundere to pour

Related forms:
con⋅found⋅a⋅ble, adjective
con⋅found⋅er, noun
con⋅found⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. dumbfound, daze, nonplus, astound.
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Word Origin & History

confound 
c.1290, "discomfit, abash, confuse," from Anglo-Fr. confoundre, from O.Fr. confondre, from L. confundere "to confuse," lit. "to pour together," from com- "together" + fundere "to pour" (see found (2)). The fig. sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in L., passed into O.Fr. and thence into M.E., where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in Eng. from c.1300. The L. pp., meanwhile, became confuse (q.v.). Confounded as an execration is first recorded 1652.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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