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Meanings of confound in English
Usage of confound in English
1
Allardyce continued to confound tradition with his approach to the transfer market.
2
The critics of it wholly mistake it and confound it with fatalism.
3
Yet in worshipping colour we do not confound the order of things.
4
The vulgar have always, and still do confound these very irreconcilable ideas.
5
But occasionally he would volunteer a few words which would confound them.
6
No; that proves that you confound things which should be kept separate.
7
No one gifted with the least perspicacity will confound the two operations.
8
They glorify her topping wisdom while on the march to confound it.
9
This is pretty plain talk; but, confound you, you can bear it.
10
I hate poor people; I hate unfortunate people; in fact, confound it!
11
A faint mist began to rise and confound the different distances together.
12
He could not confound them with vulgar things of the same kind.
13
What you tell me will confound the vainglory of our modern sceptics.
14
Again, we must not confound the foreknowledge of God with His foreordination.
15
He doth, ever in his childlike simplicity, say something to confound me.
16
But it belongs to a philosophical critic to distinguish rather than confound.
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Translations for confound
Portuguese
Spanish
Confound through the time
Confound across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common