confoundverb [ T ]
uk/kənˈfaʊnd/us/kənˈfaʊnd/to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation:
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
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Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- flabbergast
- revelation
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- stupefy
- thunderbolt
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