confound🔊

To perplex or puzzle. +

To stun or amaze.

To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong. +

(sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.

To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.

To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

(dated) To damn (a mild oath).

(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

(statistics) A confounding variable. +