confound

Etymology
From, from and , from. Related to (but not to, nor to ) and to.

Verb

 * 1) To perplex or puzzle.
 * 2) To stun or amaze.
 * 3) To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
 * 4) * 1651 (Latin edition 1642), Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (Latin title) Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (English),
 * Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.
 * 1)  To make something worse.
 * 2) To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
 * 3) To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
 * 4) To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
 * 5) * 1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,
 * I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
 * 1)  To damn (a mild oath).
 * 2)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1) To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
 * 2) To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
 * 3) * 1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,
 * I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
 * 1)  To damn (a mild oath).
 * 2)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1) * 1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,
 * I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
 * 1)  To damn (a mild oath).
 * 2)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
 * 1)  To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

Translations

 * German: ,


 * German: in Erstaunen versetzen,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: zamlžit,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, saattaa hämilleen
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: rugla
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, borrolar,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, kafasını karıştırmak,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: að sjá ekki mun á
 * Occitan:, borrolar,
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: gera vont verra, bæta gráu ofan á svart
 * Korean:
 * Occitan: empejorar
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ciddileştirmek,


 * Arabic: أَخْزَى
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: hontigi
 * German:
 * Icelandic: niðurlægja
 * Occitan:, desontir, desvergonhar, desontir
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: að sigra
 * Occitan:, despoderar
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , zum Kuckuck wünschen
 * Icelandic: að bölva
 * Occitan:, , escomenjar
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic: að ergja
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: að eyðilegga, að eyða
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  A confounding variable.