[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confound \confound"\ ko^nfound", v. t. imp.  p. p.
   confounded; p. pr.  vb. n. confounding. f. confondre,
   fr. l. confundere, -fusum, to pour together; con- + fundere
   to pour. see fuse to melt, and cf. confuse.
   1. to mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be
      distinguished; to confuse.
      1913 webster

            they who strip not ideas from the marks men use for
            them, but confound them with words, must have
            endless dispute.                      --locke.
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            let us go down, and there confound their language.
                                                  --gen. xi. 7.
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   2. to mistake for another; to identify falsely.
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            they the tinkers were generally vagrants and
            pilferers, and were often confounded with the
            gypsies.                              --macaulay.
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   3. to throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike
      with amazement; to dismay.
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            the gods confound...
            the athenians both within and out that wall. --shak.
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            they trusted in thee and were not confounded. --ps.
                                                  xxii. 5.
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            so spake the son of god, and satan stood
            a while as mute, confounded what to say. --milton.
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   4. to destroy; to ruin; to waste. obs.
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            one man's lust these many lives confounds. --shak.
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            how couldst thou in a mile confound an hour? --shak.

   syn: to abash; confuse; baffle; dismay; astonish; defeat;
        terrify; mix; blend; intermingle. see abash.
        1913 webster
see also:
confounded confounding fuse confuse abash 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confounding \confounding\ adj.
   tending to contradict a hypothesis.

   syn: contradictory.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confounding \confounding\ n.
   a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.

   syn: confusion, mix-up.
        wordnet 1.5

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

confounding
     adj : that confounds or contradicts or confuses syn: contradictory
see also:
contradictory 

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