confounded

«confounded» in Mova's judaism dictionary: very puzzled or confused — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; past form of «confound» (confound, confounds, confounded, confounding)

meaning for a pupil

1) Confounded means very puzzled or confused. tree →

2) (old-fashioned, mild swearing) Confounded is used to show annoyance, meaning «annoying» or «wretched»: «this confounded rain». tree →

3) To confound someone is to surprise and confuse them; to confound a plan or prediction is to prove it wrong. tree →

4) To confound two things is to mix them up and think one is the other. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Prophets and Writings, confounded means ashamed, disappointed and put to shame. It describes people whose hopes fail, or makers of idols who are shown to be wrong. Interpretation: Tradition reads these verses as teaching that those who trust in idols or in empty hopes will be put to shame. In the primary lessons: In old books and The Wind in the Willows, gentlemen like Toad say «confounded» as a mild swear word: «that confounded policeman!». In science and news, a result can confound the experts, meaning it goes against what they expected. «Confound it!» was an old way of saying «Bother!».

examples

• The harmonious one (zusammengefuegtes Eins) was confounded with the plain one and thus fire came to be regarded as the Pythagorean first material element.. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded. (Writings JOB.6.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.' (Prophets JER.9.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols. (Prophets ISA.45.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• The puzzle left everyone confounded. tree →
• «That confounded motor car!» shouted the old man. tree →
• The result confounded the experts. tree →
• Confound it, I've lost my keys! tree →
• Toad cursed the confounded washerwoman's dress. tree →
• The magician's trick confounded the audience. tree →
• "Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C." tree →

note

Regular verb. The mild-swearing sense is old-fashioned and only in old books or for fun today.

In the corpora

• They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.
• O Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'
• They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «confounded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.