Definitions
1.verbTo perplex or puzzle.
2.verbTo fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
3.verbTo make something worse."Don't confound the situation by yelling."
4.verbTo combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
5.verbTo cause to be ashamed; to abash."His actions confounded the skeptics."
6.verbTo defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
7.verbTo damn (a mild oath)."Confound the lady!"
8.verbTo bring to ruination.
9.verbTo stun, amaze
10.adjectiveConfused, astonished
11.adjectiveDefeated, thwarted
12.adjectiveDamned, accursed, bloody"The confounded thing doesn't work."