| 单词 | confound |
| 释义 | confound (once / 345 pages) v If you have an identical twin, you've probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another. You've also probably learned that, unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work on your mom. The verb confound means both "to mistake" and "to confuse." If you decide to treat yourself to a delicious dessert, you might find yourself confounded by the overwhelming number of choices. If you end up ordering the chocolate cake but the waiter brings you chocolate mousse, the waiter has somehow confounded those two options. Another meaning you may come across in literature is "to damn," as in "Confound it! You are the most exasperating person on the planet." WORD FAMILYconfound: confounded, confounding, confounds+/confounded: confoundedest, confoundedly/confounding: confoundingly USAGE EXAMPLESOn all fronts, the actual future confounds the imagined future. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) The only certainty in times like this is that certainties will be confounded. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Washington State’s 2016 season unfolded in a confounding picture of extremes. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw confuse, disconcert, flurry, put off cause to feel embarrassment demoralize confuse or put into disorder amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vexbe a mystery or bewildering to disorient, disorientatecause to be lost or disoriented mix up, stumpcause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v mistake one thing for another Syn|Hyper confuse blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure make unclear, indistinct, or blurred confuse, jumble, mix upassemble without order or sense misidentify, mistake identify incorrectly |
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