Get to know Confounded better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like baffled or lost.
Confounded in a sentence
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Confounded meaning
simple past and past participle of confound
Synonyms of Confounded
Using Confounded
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of confound
- Useful related words include: baffled, at sea, mixed-up, mazed.
- In the example corpus, confounded often appears in combinations such as: confounded by, confounded the, has confounded.
Context around Confounded
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Confounded
- In this selection, "confounded" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deeply, legitimately, door, doctors and efforts stand out and add context to how "confounded" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and teng confounded the police and appears legitimately confounded by his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "confounded" sits close to words such as abnormality, absenteeism and absorbent, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with confounded
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But Lee and Teng confounded the police expectations. (8 words)
And many emerged deeply confounded by what they saw. (9 words)
He said: “The data may be confounded for a few reasons. (11 words)
But, Season 2: The Door confounded and eventually lost some of its viewers by giving us too many people, parks, and plot twists to keep track of, even with the help of the internet. (34 words)
The recent surge in cases has confounded efforts to contain it and the country is running short of hospital beds, prompting debate over whether the government should impose stricter social distancing measures. (32 words)
Within these limitations, maintaining confounded and unregulated data is the most significant difficulty that can be administered by the forthcoming and the most advanced blockchain technology thus, acts as the market opportunity. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
And many emerged deeply confounded by what they saw.
Djokovic appears legitimately confounded by his Spanish opponent's ability to flick a wrist to a ball to fetch the seemingly un-returnable winner down the line.
But Tennessee, as everybody has found out, was confounded by the wave of lineups USC can and does throw at its opponents.
It has always confounded me every year when we celebrate Dr. King’s life that no mention is made of that Riverside Church speech in the major media.
Like many women in the movement, Ms. Giovanni was confounded by the machismo that dominated it.
Mia Scott has confounded doctors with her progress after undergoing emergency heart surgery when she was ten days old.
There he confounded all philosophers, and also Vittorio Rosi, the Grand Duke’s physician, who later on devoted him a whole chapter in one of his book about world-wonders.
Trying to sleuth the activity from geologic mapping is confounded by frequent eruptive activity, as old eruptions were covered by new eruptions, obliterating the past eruptive history.
But, Season 2: The Door confounded and eventually lost some of its viewers by giving us too many people, parks, and plot twists to keep track of, even with the help of the internet.
Efforts to determine the trends in central Maine were confounded by the refusal of the biggest provider in that region – Maine General – to share the data.
He said: “The data may be confounded for a few reasons.
In this surreal season, Casboult has confounded 10 years of living contract-to-contract to become one of Carlton's most valued players.
The recent surge in cases has confounded efforts to contain it and the country is running short of hospital beds, prompting debate over whether the government should impose stricter social distancing measures.
The Texans have a QB who’s not afraid to run with the ball when he has to, adding another element to their offense that’s confounded some very respectable defense.
This problem was confounded by the sad fact that the system was too centralised in structure and in the end shown to be unfit for purpose.
This track from Prine’s mid-'90s album Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings has confounded many listeners with the hard left turn it takes in its final verse.
When Cormac tried out for Keeper for the Gryffindor team, Hermione confounded him to ensure Ron would get the position instead.
Within these limitations, maintaining confounded and unregulated data is the most significant difficulty that can be administered by the forthcoming and the most advanced blockchain technology thus, acts as the market opportunity.
But Lee and Teng confounded the police expectations.
Confounded by the test results, the couple began researching online and talking with their neighbors about the home.
Common combinations with confounded
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- confounded by 15×
- confounded the 7×
- has confounded 6×
- was confounded 4×
- confounded and 4×
- were confounded 4×
- be confounded 3×
- that confounded 3×
- always confounded 2×
- confounded doctors 2×