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Confound meaning
To perplex or puzzle. | To stun or amaze. | To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
Synonyms of Confound
Example sentences (20)
God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things that are mighty.
Indeed, Bitcoin continues to confound every market pundit.
The Cubs and White Sox continue to confound the experts in the early going, with the Cubs among the major-league leaders Sunday in runs per game (third) and batting average (second) and the Sox near the bottom in ERA (29th) and walks allowed (29th).
Getting the win needed to reignite their hopes in these circumstances would certainly confound the bookmakers who have priced up ’s men as the 3-1 underdogs.
Hats with wide brims are also a confound, as they can hide the forehead and hair, and cast a shadow on the face.
Indeed, much of what was speculated in the article has come to pass. But perhaps equally concerning is that many of the questions posed then, continue to confound us today.
The storm of charges and counter-charges would have been enough to confound casual viewers who were not up on the latest revelations about either candidate's finances or family members.
They hope Bountiful High will teach students about the Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to confound the Japanese in World War II and the chiefs who helped shape the United States before the country was formed.
Fangio mixes in just enough deception to confound Minshew and he’ll suffer from a few rookie mistakes.
In addition to flu, many respiratory infections, including fungal infections, can cause symptoms that could confound doctors and delay a vaping diagnosis.
More often than not, chronological age has merely been used as a covariate or confound (De Lange et al., 2006).
Yes, public demonstrations and public comments by ordinary citizens at public meetings can and do disrupt, delay, extend, confuse, confound, irritate and even at times bore those elected or employed to do the public’s business.
Mirai Kawashima and his cohorts confound metal conventions again.
Now researchers in Singapore say they have trained one to perform another task known to confound humans: figuring out how to assemble furniture from Ikea.
Researchers at KITP have developed code that can simulate stars and some types of explosions, which can help LCO researchers get more information on how existing theories in physics support or confound their observations.
We know that the universe is expanding, but a strange discrepancy in just how fast that expansion is occurring continues to confound physicists—and make them wonder whether there’s some new, unexplained physics afoot.
Confound him, who refuseth the faith of Muhammad; and withhold us from those who are so inclined from the true faith.
Experimental and quasi-experimental behavioral genetic research uses genetic methodologies to disentangle this confound and understand the nature and origins of individual differences in behavior.
Genetic interactions ( epistasis ) can often confound simple interpretations of such "knock-out" or "knock-in" studies.
Genetic interactions ( epistasis ) can often confound simple interpretations of such " knockout " studies.