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.nounThe act by which things are confounded, or confused.
11.nounThe process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.