confounded

confounded
    adj 1: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements;
           filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his
           questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and
           confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt
           lost on the first day of school" [syn: {baffled},
           {befuddled}, {bemused}, {bewildered}, {confounded},
           {confused}, {lost}, {mazed}, {mixed-up}, {at sea}]
    

Confound \Con*found"\ (k[o^]n*found"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Confounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confounding}.] [F. confondre,
   fr. L. confundere, -fusum, to pour together; con- + fundere
   to pour. See {Fuse} to melt, and cf. {Confuse}.]
   1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be
      distinguished; to confuse.
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            They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for
            them, but confound them with words, must have
            endless dispute.                      --Locke.
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            Let us go down, and there confound their language.
                                                  --Gen. xi. 7.
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   2. To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
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            They [the tinkers] were generally vagrants and
            pilferers, and were often confounded with the
            gypsies.                              --Macaulay.
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   3. To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike
      with amazement; to dismay.
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            The gods confound...
            The Athenians both within and out that wall. --Shak.
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            They trusted in thee and were not confounded. --Ps.
                                                  xxii. 5.
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            So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
            A while as mute, confounded what to say. --Milton.
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   4. To destroy; to ruin; to waste. [Obs.]
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            One man's lust these many lives confounds. --Shak.
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            How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour? --Shak.

   Syn: To abash; confuse; baffle; dismay; astonish; defeat;
        terrify; mix; blend; intermingle. See {Abash}.
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Confounded \Con*found"ed\, a.
   1. Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent;
      bewildered.

   Syn: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, mazed,
        mixed-up.
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              A cloudy and confounded philosopher. --Cudworth.
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   2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. [Colloq.]
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            He was a most confounded tory.        --Swift.
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            The tongue of that confounded woman.  --Sir. W.
                                                  Scott.
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191 Moby Thesaurus words for "confounded":
      Byzantine, absolute, addled, agape, aghast, agog, all agog,
      all up with, amazed, astonished, astounded, at a loss, at gaze,
      awed, awestruck, baffled, balled up, bamboozled, beat, beaten,
      beguiled, belied, bested, bewildered, bewitched, blamed,
      blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, breathless, buffaloed,
      captivated, complex, complicated, confused, confuted, convoluted,
      crabbed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, daedal, danged, darned, dashed,
      dazed, defeated, deflated, denied, deuced, devious, discarded,
      discomfited, discredited, dismayed, dismissed, disproved, disputed,
      doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down, dumbfounded,
      dumbstruck, elaborate, embrangled, enchanted, enraptured,
      enravished, entangled, enthralled, entranced, execrable, exploded,
      exposed, fallen, fascinated, fixed, flabbergasted, floored,
      fouled up, fuddled, gaping, gauping, goldarned, goshdarn, gross,
      hors de combat, hypnotized, implicated, impugned, in a dilemma,
      in awe, in awe of, in suspense, infernal, intricate, invalidated,
      involuted, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine,
      lambasted, lathered, licked, lost in wonder, loused up,
      many-faceted, marveling, matted, mazy, meandering, mesmerized,
      messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, mystified,
      negated, negatived, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the skids,
      open-eyed, openmouthed, out-and-out, outdone, outright, overborne,
      overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden,
      overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perplexed, popeyed,
      punctured, put to rout, puzzled, ramified, rank, rapt in wonder,
      refuted, rejected, roundabout, routed, ruddy, ruined, scattered,
      screwed up, settled, shocked, shown up, silenced, skinned,
      skinned alive, snarled, spellbound, staggered, stampeded, staring,
      straight-out, stuck, stumped, stupefied, subtle, surprised,
      tangled, tangly, thrown, thunderstruck, trimmed, trounced, twisted,
      under a charm, undone, unmitigated, upset, whelmed, whipped,
      wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, worsted