Confound Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-found, kŏn-
To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. abash
  2. chagrin
  3. confuse
  4. discomfit
  5. discomfort
  6. disconcert
  7. discountenance
  8. embarrass
  9. faze
  10. mortify
To make incapable of finding something to think, do, or say
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. nonplus
  2. flummox
  3. stick
  4. stump
  5. throw
  6. beat
To cause to become confused or perplexed.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perplex

Words Related to Confound

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Confound Sentence Examples

  • Many authors confound the year of Rome with the civil year, supposing them both to begin on the 1st of January.

  • I'm guessing I confound you the same way you do me.

  • In order not to confound the innocent with the guilty, Torquemada published a declaration offering grace and pardon to all who presented themselves before the tribunal and avowed their fault.

  • The belief that he had not really died, but would return again to confound his foes, was long prevalent, not only in the remoter provinces, but even in Rome itself; and more than one pretender was able to collect a following by assuming the name of the last of the race of Augustus.

  • He is, in fact, an instance of the tendency, which has so often been remarked by other nations in the English, to drag in moral distinctions at every turn, and to confound everything which is novel to the experience, unpleasant to the taste, and incomprehensible to the understanding, under the general epithets of wrong, wicked and shocking.

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