confounded
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confounded
- simple past and past participle of confound
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 124:
- Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.
Adjective edit
confounded (comparative more confounded, superlative most confounded)
- confused, astonished
- defeated, thwarted
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3:
- Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal: […]
- damned, accursed, bloody
- The confounded thing doesn't work.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177:
- "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
- Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
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confused
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defeated
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damned
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- “confounded”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.