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# confounded

«confounded» in Mova's school dictionary: **very puzzled or confused** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; past form of «confound» (confound, confounds, confounded, confounding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Confounded means very puzzled or confused. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned, mild swearing) Confounded is used to show annoyance, meaning «annoying» or «wretched»: «this confounded rain». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#m2)

3) To confound someone is to surprise and confuse them; to confound a plan or prediction is to prove it wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#m3)

4) To confound two things is to mix them up and think one is the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In old books and The Wind in the Willows, gentlemen like Toad say «confounded» as a mild swear word: «that confounded policeman!». In science and news, a result can confound the experts, meaning it goes against what they expected. «Confound it!» was an old way of saying «Bother!».

### examples

- The puzzle left everyone confounded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x1)
- «That confounded motor car!» shouted the old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x2)
- The result confounded the experts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x3)
- Confound it, I've lost my keys! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x4)
- Toad cursed the confounded washerwoman's dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x5)
- The magician's trick confounded the audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x6)
- "Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. The mild-swearing sense is old-fashioned and only in old books or for fun today.

### In the corpora

- [They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1018/)
- [O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1019/)
- [We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.289/)
- [They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.137/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confounded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confounded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.