confound

«confound» in Mova's school dictionary: to confuse them so badly that they cannot think clearly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (confounds, confounded, confounding)

meaning for a pupil

1) To confound someone is to confuse them so badly that they cannot think clearly. tree →

2) To confound a plan is to defeat it or spoil it. tree →

3) (exclamation) «Confound it!» is an old way of saying «Blast it!» when something goes wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, to mix up the innocent with the guilty, or to baffle and beat an enemy by a trick or fog

examples

• The puzzle began to confound me. tree →
• The magician's fog was meant to confound the soldiers. tree →
• Do not confound the innocent with the guilty. tree →
• «Confound it!» cried the farmer when his cart stuck in the mud. tree →

note

nothing changes a count, but if you confound two numbers in a sum, the answer will be wrong.

In the corpora

• Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
• 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 «confound» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.