Word Finder - confounding

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To perplex or puzzle.

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• puzzle

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To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

synonyms

• confuse
• mix up

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To make something worse.

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Don't confound the situation by yelling.

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

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To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

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His actions confounded the skeptics.

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To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

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To damn (a mild oath).

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Confound the lady!

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To bring to ruination.

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To stun, amaze

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The act by which things are confounded, or confused.

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The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.

As an exponent of Plato he suffered from the fatal error of confounding Plato with the later Platonists.

At the same time the application of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy roused the whole of western La Vende; and in face of the danger threatened by the refractory clergy and by the army of the migrs, the Girondins set about confounding the court with the Feuillants in the minds of the public, and compromising Louis XVI.

The first of these is difficult to judge and must be left as a possible confounding factor.

Historically, these confounding effects have been controlled using linear models assuming a constant additive error variance.

Again and again, during his absence on the public service, the barons and prelates would assemble to compass his ruin or dispose of his crown, when, suddenly, " like a tempest," from the depths of Silesia or of Bosnia, he would himself appear among them, confounding and scattering them, often without resistance, always without bloodshed.

It's the kind of thing kids name their bands on shows on Nick Jr. That makes it all the more confounding that this music is really GOOD.

Confounding literal-minded androids and foiling omnipotent aliens is all in a day's work for the resourceful Captain.

We want to make it clear that wc do not commit the folly of confounding the Communist Party with the fascists.

The main problem raised by these tumors is confounding infection which may lead to late diagnosis or an error in tumor staging.

Bespoke languages are deemed necessary in order to avoid introducing confounding variables.

Analyzes involved proportional hazards modeling and adjustment for confounding by known cardiovascular risk factors and for regression dilution bias.

Arguing in the Lessons that a mathematical point must have quantity, though this were not reckoned, he had explained the Greek word UTCy v, used for a point, to mean a visible mark made with a hot iron;; whereupon he was charged by Wallis with gross ignorance for confounding artypii and o - y,ua.

Thus, whereas the Ionians, confounding the unity and the plurality of the universe, had neglected plurality, and the Pythagoreans, contenting themselves with the reduction of the variety of nature to a duality or a series of dualities, had neglected unity, Parmenides, taking a hint from Xenophanes, made the antagonistic doctrines supply one another's deficiencies; for, as Xenophanes in his theological system had recognized at once the unity of God and the plurality of things, so Parmenides in his system of nature recognized at once the rational unity of the Ent and the phenomenal plurality of the Nonent.

This foe confounding Thy land, desiring to lay waste the whole world, rises against us; these lawless men are gathered together to overthrow Thy kingdom, to destroy Thy dear Jerusalem, Thy beloved Russia; to defile Thy temples, to overthrow Thine altars, and to desecrate our holy shrines.

But all such sources are liable to the most confounding errors, and some passages relied on have in any case to submit to conjectural emendation.

Starting with the kiwi and cassowary, people have got into the habit of confounding flightless with wingless conditions.

The vast collections in richly endowed European and There is danger of confounding the products of native industries.

Some caution should be used against confounding accidentally introduced indigenous species with those reared from the imported eggs.