Antonyms for confound

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kon-found, kuhn-; for 6 usually kon-found

Phonetic Transcription : kɒnˈfaʊnd, kən-; for 6 usually ˈkɒnˈfaʊnd

Definition of confound

Origin : c.1300, "make uneasy, abash," from Anglo-French confoundre, Old French confondre (12c.) "crush, ruin, disgrace, throw into disorder," from Latin confundere "to confuse," literally "to pour together, mix, mingle," from com- "together" (see com-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)).
The figurative sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in Latin, passed into French and thence into Middle English, where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in English from c.1300. Meaning "perplex" is late 14c. The Latin past participle confusus, meanwhile, became confused (q.v.).

verb confuse

Example sentences :

But no—confound it—there was some one coming down the avenue!
Extract from : « The Tenant of Wildfell Hall » by Anne Bronte

Besides, confound it, Tom, you could be useful to me in a hundred ways.'
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Confound her, it was like her pale face to be wandering up and down the house!
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

It is not essential formally and absolutely to confound will with desire.
Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet

Why should I look him up, confound him—he hadn't bothered his head about me.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

I rejoice in the change; but we must not confound names with things.
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

It's my experience that you've always got to, consider the Union, confound them!
Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy

There is no poisonous species with which one is likely to confound it.
Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

But neither must we confound the theories or aspects of morality with the origin of our moral ideas.
Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato

But, confound it, Annette, we've been calling on those people all summer.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Synonyms for confound

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