Sentence example with the word 'confound'

confound

abash, blast, confute, deflower, disrupt, get, misuse, put to flight, silence, take aback, wreck

Last update: June 8, 2015


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A sudden rise in prices confounded the public.   [verb]

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In 19th-century boys ' yarns, Rider Haggard 's heroes would use an exactly forecast eclipse to confound (literally) benighted savages.   [verb]

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This can potentially confound the interpretation of the results, particularly in primary care where many of the patients first present with a problem.   [verb]

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He seems to have confounded coarse caricaturists with refined and thoughtful journalists, even as, in the account of that inshore skirmish, he turns a gun-brig into a British frigate.   [verb]

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Many of the old Scottish mendicants were by no means to be confounded with the utterly degraded class of beings who now practise that wandering trade.   [verb]

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"G--d confound him."   [verb]

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I become confounded with his soul, and with him I pass from one condition to another.   [verb]

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I was accursed when I thought of bringing you here; some of your confounded folly has driven her mad.   [verb]

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