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confoundconfound /kənˈfaʊnd/ verb [transitive] formal ETYMOLOGYconfoundOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French confondre to ruin, destroy, from Latin confundere to pour together, confuse, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + fundere to pour VERB TABLEconfound |
| Present | I, you, we, they | confound | | he, she, it | confounds | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | confounded | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have confounded | | he, she, it | has confounded | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had confounded | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will confound | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have confounded |
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| Present | I | am confounding | | he, she, it | is confounding | | you, we, they | are confounding | | Past | I, he, she, it | was confounding | | you, we, they | were confounding | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been confounding | | he, she, it | has been confounding | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been confounding | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be confounding | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been confounding |
► confound the critics/pundits/experts etc. She confounded the critics by turning the company around. 1to confuse and surprise people by being unexpected: Dan’s speedy recovery confounded the medical experts.2to prove someone or something wrong: confound the critics/pundits/experts etc. She confounded the critics by turning the company around.3if a problem, question, etc. confounds you, you cannot understand it or explain it SYN baffle: Even travel agents are confounded by the logic of airline ticket pricing.4literary to defeat an enemy, plan, etc.5confound it/him/them etc. old-fashioned used to show that you are annoyed |