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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   confound

   • IPA[kənˈfound]

   美式

   • v.
     cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations；prove (a theory, expectation, or prediction) wrong
   • excl
     used to express anger or annoyance

   • verb: confound, 3rd person present: confounds, gerund or present participle: confounding, past tense: confounded, past participle: confounded

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations the inflation figure confounded economic analysts 同義詞 amaze, astonish, dumbfound, stagger, surprise, ... 更多startle, stun, stupefy, daze, nonplus, throw, shake, unnerve, disconcert, discompose, dismay, bewilder, set someone thinking, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, take someone's breath away, take by surprise, take aback, shake up, stop someone in their tracks, strike dumb, leave open-mouthed, leave aghast, catch off balance, informalbuffalo, flabbergast, floor, knock for six, knock sideways, knock out, knock the stuffing out of someone, bowl over, blow someone's mind, blow away, flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fox, make someone scratch their head, be all Greek to, fog, archaicwilder, gravel, maze, cause to be at a stand, distract, pose, rareobfuscate
   • ▪ prove (a theory, expectation, or prediction) wrong the rise in prices confounded expectations 同義詞 invalidate, negate, contradict, counter, go against, ... 更多discredit, give the lie to, drive a coach and horses through, quash, explode, demolish, shoot down, destroy, disprove, prove wrong, prove false, falsify, informalshoot full of holes, blow sky-high, rarecontrovert, confute, negative
   • ▪ defeat (a plan, aim, or hope) we will confound these tactics by the pressure groups
   • ▪ archaic overthrow (an enemy) God chose to use natural disorders to confound Pharaoh and the gods of Egypt
   • 2. mix up (something) with something else so that the individual elements become difficult to distinguish 'nuke' is now a cooking technique, as microwave radiation is confounded with nuclear radiation

   excl

   excl

   • 1. dated used to express anger or annoyance oh confound it, where is the thing?