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CONFOUNDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Example:
she felt lost on the first day of school
Synonyms:
at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up
Classified under:
Similar:
perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb confound
Context examples:
Nay, but there is no such confounded hurry.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She waved her hand to me to go away, so earnestly, that, all confounded as I was, I turned from them at once.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Hush, he's in the garden! I forgot the confounded jelly, but it can't be helped now," said John, surveying the prospect with an anxious eye.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was equally confounded at the sight of so many pigmies, for such I took them to be, after having so long accustomed mine eyes to the monstrous objects I had left.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I was amazed—confounded.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Norris was a little confounded and as nearly being silenced as ever she had been in her life; for she was ashamed to confess having never seen any of the impropriety which was so glaring to Sir Thomas, and would not have admitted that her influence was insufficient—that she might have talked in vain.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mas'r Davy, he added; answering, as I think, my look; you han't no call to be afeerd of me: but I'm kiender muddled; I don't fare to feel no matters,—which was as much as to say that he was not himself, and quite confounded.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
