Confounds Synonyms and Antonyms

To make incapable of finding something to think, do, or say
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. beats
  2. throws
  3. stumps
  4. sticks
  5. flummoxes
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. confuses
  2. discombobulates
  3. mortifies
  4. frustrates
  5. fazes
  6. bedevils
  7. embarrasses
  8. bewilders
  9. fuddles
  10. disconcerts
  11. discomforts
  12. befuddles
  13. perplexes
  14. discomfits
  15. throws
  16. chagrins
  17. puzzles
Antonyms:
  1. enlightens
  2. clarifies
  3. relates
  4. explains
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Mistake one thing for another
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mistakes
  2. confuses

Words Related to Confounds

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.

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Confounds Sentence Examples

  • Somewhat curiously, but very naturally, Enoch the son of Cain is confused with the Enoch who was translated to heaven - an error which the author of the Old English Genesis avoids, though (according to the existing text) he confounds the names of Enoch and Enos.

  • Much of Macpherson's matter is clearly his own, and he confounds the stories belonging to different cycles.

  • And that method on which a great scholar 1 insisted when studying the old Persian religion is doubly to be insisted on in the study of the history of baptism and the cognate institution, the eucharist, namely, to avoid equally " the narrowness of mind which clings to matters of fact without rising to their cause and connecting them with the series of associated phenomena, and the wild and uncontrolled spirit of comparison, which, by comparing everything, confounds everything."

  • Thus Zeno again confounds a finite distance infinitely divided with an infinite distance.

  • The report has been covered extensively in the press for example E-learning success confounds cynics - TES January 30, 2004 (PDF ).

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