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Meanings of confound in English
Synonyms
Examples for "throw"
Examples for "throw"
1
In Europe we throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year.
2
But fears remain that political uncertainty could yet throw countries off course.
3
I'm sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me.
4
The problem is, however, people in glass houses should not throw stones.
5
We now throw down the gage to the capital of the world.
1
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy.
2
Margaret danced with most of the young men, waltzes and American fox-trots.
3
With her fox-terriers, Dummy and Fussie; from a photograph taken in 1889
4
Mr Fox said talks would continue over Christmas and the new year.
5
Result: panic at Fox News due to the potential loss of advertising.
1
The question, however, seemed only to surprise and confuse the young man.
2
Italy, Romania, Russia with their aggressive programs confuse the situation too much.'
3
I think that would confuse members of the public, employers and parents.
4
In the future, no director will confuse such flutterings with actual power.
5
Telstra said the new high-speed bundle was unnecessary and would confuse customers.
1
Scientists designed SoFi to solve several problems that bedevil oceanic robotics.
2
For those who are, there are a number of factors that bedevil progress.
3
She believes corruption and inequality not only bedevil the world, but are linked.
4
The problem of players going to the United States continues to bedevil the GAA.
5
The forces of physics, biology, and Moore's Law can bedevil you in unexpected ways.
1
Not odd enough, it must be said, to befuddle the Kiwi's mind.
2
It is a flat public loss, another attempt to befuddle our thinking.
3
The trail wiggled all over the place as if trying to befuddle us.
4
It paints a portrait of a system designed to befuddle users into complacency.
5
How long does it take a clever politician to befuddle them?
1
God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
2
One day Mr. Kordé had drunk himself into an unusual state of fuddle.
3
Do you think you can fuddle me with a mass of words, Mr. Harley?
4
But there is no doubt that the lion of the evening was-the"fuddle."
5
The horrid creatures are going to fuddle at the tea-garden, and get tipsy like their masters.
1
Would she let an external event discombobulate her in such a nervous disorder?
2
This companion would discombobulate the Sun's distant reservoir of comets whenever it passed through their neighborhood.
3
However, Hatch noted "those who hate the bill would like to discombobulate the whole mess".
4
With a glossy grin, a dry wit and bags of affable Irish-American charm, Barclays' chief executive, Bob Diamond, is a difficult man to discombobulate.
5
And so we behave fearfully when they enter the kitchen, as if they possess some talismanic evil, some malignant potency, which can discombobulate our creations.
1
They mix up the items of news in a very irritating way.
2
Nobody who would mix up in such a dirty deal as that.
3
It's the first and last woman's quarrel I ever mix up in.
4
Some one may like to know how to mix up Paris green.
5
Well, you'll need to be if you mix up in his affairs.
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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Portuguese
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Confound through the time
Confound across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common