confound

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To perplex or puzzle.

   “And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.”

2. fiil To stun or amaze.
3. fiil To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
4. fiil To make something worse.

   “Don't confound the situation by yelling.”

5. fiil To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.

   “There the freſh and ſalt water would meete and be confounded together, […]”

6. fiil To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

   “His actions confounded the skeptics.”

7. fiil To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

   “But God hath choſen the fooliſh things of the woꝛld, to confound the wiſe: and God hath choſen the weake things of the woꝛld, to confound the things which are mighty:”

8. fiil To damn (a mild oath).

   “Confound you!”

9. fiil To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

   “To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquiſht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe / Confounded though immortal: But his doom[…]”

10. isim A confounding variable.