Synonyms for Confound:

v.
• astonish
- blew mind
- blew one mind
- blew one's mind
- blew ones mind
- blow one mind
- blow ones mind
- blowing away
- blowing mind
- blowing one mind
- blowing one's mind
- blowing ones mind
- blows away
- blows mind
- blows one mind
- blows one's mind
- blows ones mind
- knocking over
- knocks over
- puts one away
- putting one away
- sprang on
- springing on
- springs on
- sprung on
- threw a curve
- threw curve
- throw curve
- throwing a curve
- throwing curve
- throws a curve
- throws curve
• astound
- knocked over with feather
- knocking over with feather
- knocks over with feather
• baffle
- be fuddle
- be fuddled
- be fuddles
- be fuddling
- be-fuddle
- be-fuddled
- be-fuddles
- be-fuddling
- buffaloing
• ball up
- made unclear
- makes unclear
- making unclear
• bamboozle
- de fraud
- de frauds
- de lude
- de ludes
- de-fraud
- de-frauds
- de-lude
- de-ludes
• becloud
- be clouded
- be clouding
- be clouds
- be-cloud
- be-clouded
- be-clouding
- be-clouds
- over cast
- over casting
- over casts
- over-cast
- over-casting
- over-casts
- overcasts
• bewilder
- be muse
- be mused
- be musing
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-muse
- be-mused
- be-musing
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- mess with head
- mess with one head
- mess with ones head
- messed with head
- messed with one head
- messed with one's head
- messed with ones head
- messes with head
- messes with one head
- messes with one's head
- messes with ones head
- messing with head
- messing with one head
- messing with one's head
- messing with ones head
• boggle the mind
- am unbelievable
- are unbelievable
- art unbelievable
- be dazzle
- be dazzles
- be dazzling
- be-dazzle
- be-dazzled
- be-dazzles
- be-dazzling
- being unbelievable
- blew one away
- blowing one away
- blows one away
- boggle mind
- is unbelievable
- knock one socks off
- knock ones socks off
- knocked one socks off
- knocked one's socks off
- knocked ones socks off
- knocked socks off
- knocking one socks off
- knocking one's socks off
- knocking ones socks off
- knocking socks off
- knocks one socks off
- knocks one's socks off
- knocks ones socks off
- knocks socks off
- was unbelievable
- wast unbelievable
- were unbelievable
- wert unbelievable
• break
- Declassing
- co wed
- co wing
- co-wed
- co-wing
- de class
- de classed
- de classes
- de classing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de merit
- de merited
- de meriting
- de merits
- de moralize
- de moralized
- de moralizes
- de moralizing
- de mote
- de motes
- de moting
- de-class
- de-classed
- de-classes
- de-classing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-merit
- de-merited
- de-meriting
- de-merits
- de-moralize
- de-moralized
- de-moralizes
- de-moralizing
- de-mote
- de-motes
- de-moting
- declasses
- dis confirm
- dis confirmed
- dis confirming
- dis confirms
- dis-confirm
- dis-confirmed
- dis-confirming
- dis-confirms
- disconfirms
- in capacitate
- in capacitated
- in capacitates
- in capacitating
- in-capacitate
- in-capacitated
- in-capacitates
- in-capacitating
- re duce
- re duces
- re-duce
- re-duces
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- under mined
- under mining
- under-mined
- under-mining
• compound
- ex acerbate
- ex acerbated
- ex acerbates
- ex acerbating
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-acerbate
- ex-acerbated
- ex-acerbates
- ex-acerbating
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
- made complex
- makes complex
- making complex
• confute
- blew sky high
- blowing sky high
- blows sky high
- bring naught
- bringing naught
- bringing to naught
- brings naught
- brings to naught
- brought naught
- brought to naught
- ex pose
- ex posed
- ex-pose
- ex-posed
- ex-posing
- in validate
- in validated
- in validates
- in validating
- in-validate
- in-validated
- in-validates
- in-validating
- knocksed props out from under
- knockses props out from under
- knocksing props out from under
- over came
- over come
- over comes
- over coming
- over threw
- over throw
- over throwing
- over thrown
- over throws
- over turned
- over turning
- over turns
- over-came
- over-come
- over-comes
- over-coming
- over-threw
- over-throw
- over-throwing
- over-thrown
- over-throws
- over-turn
- over-turned
- over-turning
- over-turns
- proved false
- proves false
- proves wrong
- proving false
- proving wrong
- sets aside
• controvert
- de bate
- de bated
- de bates
- de bating
- de-bate
- de-bated
- de-bates
- de-bating
- dis cuss
- dis cussed
- dis cusses
- dis cussing
- dis-cuss
- dis-cussed
- dis-cusses
- dis-cussing
• damn
- casts out
- complained of
- complaining of
- complains of
- cried down
- cries down
- crying down
- denunciated
- denunciates
- denunciating
- drats
- dratting
- ex communicate
- ex communicated
- ex communicates
- ex communicating
- ex-communicate
- ex-communicated
- ex-communicates
- ex-communicating
- fulminated against
- fulminates against
- fulminating against
- inveigled against
- inveigles against
- inveigling against
- objected to
- objecting to
- objects to
- pro scribe
- pro scribed
- pro scribes
- pro scribing
- pro-scribe
- pro-scribed
- pro-scribes
- pro-scribing
- re vile
- re-vile
- thundered against
- thundering against
- thunders against
• dash
- dis appoint
- dis appointed
- dis appointing
- dis appoints
- dis comfort
- dis comforted
- dis comforting
- dis comforts
- dis-appoint
- dis-appointed
- dis-appointing
- dis-appoints
- dis-comfort
- dis-comforted
- dis-comforting
- dis-comforts
• daze
- be fog
- be fogged
- be fogging
- be fogs
- be numb
- be numbed
- be numbing
- be numbs
- be-fog
- be-fogged
- be-fogging
- be-fogs
- be-numb
- be-numbed
- be-numbing
- be-numbs
- over power
- over powered
- over powering
- over powers
- over-power
- over-powered
- over-powering
- over-powers
• defeat
- beat system
- beating down
- beating system
- beating the system
- beats down
- beats system
- beats the system
- casts down
- caused setback
- causes setback
- causing setback
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- counter plot
- counter plots
- counter plotted
- counter plotting
- counter-plots
- counter-plotted
- counter-plotting
- counterplots
- de feat
- de feats
- de-feat
- de-feats
- nosed out
- noses out
- nosing out
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witted
- out-witting
- puts end to
- putting end to
- sub jugate
- sub-jugate
- sur mount
- sur mounted
- sur mounting
- sur mounts
- sur-mount
- sur-mounted
- sur-mounting
- sur-mounts
- take wind out sails
- takes wind out of sails
- takes wind out sails
- taking wind out of sails
- taking wind out sails
- threw for loop
- throwing for loop
- throws for loop
- took wind out of sails
- took wind out sails
- un did
- un does
- un doing
- un done
- un-did
- un-does
- un-doing
• derange
- agitate
- botch
- capsize
- churn
- clutter
- convulse
- disarrange
- dishevel
- dislocate
- displace
- ferment
- hash
- meddle
- mess
- misplace
- muss
- ripple
- roil
- roughen
- ruffle
- rumple
- swirl
- tamper
- toss
- tousle
- trouble
- whip
- whisk
• discomfit
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- pre vent
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
• disconcert
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- gat to
- gotten to
- psyching out
- psychs out
- upsets apple cart
- upsetting apple cart
• dismay
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis illusion
- dis illusioned
- dis illusions
- dis may
- dis mayed
- dis maying
- dis mays
- dis quiet
- dis quieted
- dis quieting
- dis quiets
- dis tress
- dis tressed
- dis tresses
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- dis-illusion
- dis-illusioned
- dis-illusions
- dis-may
- dis-mayed
- dis-maying
- dis-mays
- dis-quiet
- dis-quieted
- dis-quieting
- dis-quiets
- dis-tress
- dis-tressed
- dis-tresses
- threw in to a tizzy
- threw in to tizzy
- threw into a tizzy
- threw into tizzy
- throw in to a tizzy
- throw in to tizzy
- throwing in to a tizzy
- throwing in to tizzy
- throwing into a tizzy
- throwing into tizzy
- throws in to a tizzy
- throws in to tizzy
- throws into a tizzy
- throws into tizzy
• disorder
- dis joint
- dis jointed
- dis jointing
- dis joints
- dis locate
- dis located
- dis locates
- dis locating
- dis order
- dis ordered
- dis ordering
- dis orders
- dis temper
- dis tempered
- dis tempering
- dis tempers
- dis-joint
- dis-jointed
- dis-jointing
- dis-joints
- dis-locate
- dis-located
- dis-locates
- dis-locating
- dis-order
- dis-ordered
- dis-ordering
- dis-orders
- dis-temper
- dis-tempered
- dis-tempering
- dis-tempers
• disorganize
- brake down
- breaks down
- broke down
- de mobilize
- de mobilized
- de mobilizes
- de mobilizing
- de stroy
- de stroyed
- de stroying
- de stroys
- de-mobilize
- de-mobilized
- de-mobilizes
- de-mobilizing
- de-stroy
- de-stroyed
- de-stroying
- de-stroys
- dis band
- dis banded
- dis banding
- dis bands
- dis organize
- dis organized
- dis organizes
- dis organizing
- dis perse
- dis-band
- dis-banded
- dis-banding
- dis-bands
- dis-organize
- dis-organized
- dis-organizes
- dis-organizing
- dis-perse
- mis laid
- mis lay
- mis laying
- mis lays
- mis-laid
- mis-lay
- mis-laying
- mis-lays
- put out order
- puts out of order
- puts out order
- putting out of order
- putting out order
- turn topsy turvy
- turn topsyturvy
- turned topsy turvy
- turned topsy-turvy
- turned topsyturvy
- turning topsy turvy
- turning topsy-turvy
- turning topsyturvy
- turns topsy turvy
- turns topsy-turvy
- turns topsyturvy
• disprove
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis prove
- dis proved
- dis proves
- dis proving
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- dis-prove
- dis-proved
- dis-proves
- dis-proving
- finding unfounded
- finds unfounded
- found unfounded
- knocked bottom out of
- knocked props out
- knocking bottom out of
- knocking props out
- knocks bottom out of
- knocks props out
- poked holes in
- pokes holes in
- poking holes in
- shooting holes in
- shoots holes in
- shot holes in
• distract
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- called away
- calling away
- calls away
- catches flies
- catching flies
- caught flies
- de tract
- de tracts
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
- drawing away
- draws away
- drew away
- leading away
- leads away
- led away
- turns aside
• disturb
- burns up
- burnt up
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- inter fere
- inter feres
- inter-fere
- inter-feres
- made uneasy
- makes uneasy
- making uneasy
- out raged
- out rages
- out raging
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
• elude
- am beyond someone
- are beyond someone
- art beyond someone
- beating around bush
- beats around bush
- beats around the bush
- being beyond someone
- gat around
- gat away from
- gave runaround
- gave slip
- gave the runaround
- gave the slip
- gave wide berth to
- gets around
- give runaround
- give slip
- gives runaround
- gives slip
- gives the runaround
- gives the slip
- gives wide berth to
- giving runaround
- giving slip
- giving the runaround
- giving the slip
- giving wide berth to
- got around
- gotten around
- gotten away from
- hem haw
- is beyond someone
- not touched
- not touches
- out run
- out running
- out runs
- out-run
- out-running
- out-runs
- pass buck
- passes up
- passing up
- ran around
- running around
- runs around
- staid shy of
- stayed shy of
- staying shy of
- stays shy of
- steered clear of
- steers clear of
- was beyond someone
- wast beyond someone
- were beyond someone
- wert beyond someone
• embroil
- caused trouble
- causes trouble
- dis unite
- dis united
- dis unites
- dis uniting
- dis-unite
- dis-united
- dis-unites
- dis-uniting
- in criminate
- in criminated
- in criminates
- in criminating
- in-criminate
- in-criminated
- in-criminates
- in-criminating
• flabbergast
- made speechless
- makes speechless
- making speechless
- threw for a loop
- throwing for a loop
- throws for a loop
• fluster
- made nervous
- makes nervous
- making nervous
• humble
- be mean
- be meaning
- be means
- be-mean
- be-meaning
- be-means
- bemeaning
- bemeans
- cut quick
- cut the quick
- cut to quick
- cuts quick
- cuts the quick
- cuts to quick
- cuts to the quick
- cutting quick
- cutting the quick
- cutting to quick
- cutting to the quick
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de mean
- de meaning
- de means
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- de-mean
- de-meaning
- de-means
- dis grace
- dis graced
- dis graces
- dis gracing
- dis-grace
- dis-graced
- dis-graces
- dis-gracing
- made eat dirt
- made feel small
- made one feel small
- make feel small
- makes eat dirt
- makes feel small
- makes one feel small
- making eat dirt
- making feel small
- making one feel small
- pop balloon
- pop one balloon
- pop ones balloon
- popped balloon
- popped one balloon
- popped one's balloon
- popped ones balloon
- popping balloon
- popping one balloon
- popping one's balloon
- popping ones balloon
- pops balloon
- pops one balloon
- pops one's balloon
- pops ones balloon
- put shame
- strikes dumb
- striking dumb
- strook dumb
- take down peg
- takes down a peg
- takes down peg
- taking down a peg
- taking down peg
- took down a peg
- took down peg
• humiliate
- bringing low
- brings low
- cut down size
- cuts down size
- cuts down to size
- cutting down size
- cutting down to size
- dis honor
- dis honored
- dis honoring
- dis honors
- dis-honor
- dis-honored
- dis-honoring
- dis-honors
- made a fool of
- made fool of
- make fool of
- makes a fool of
- makes ashamed
- makes fool of
- making a fool of
- making ashamed
- making fool of
- put out countenance
- puts out countenance
- puts out of countenance
- putting out countenance
- putting out of countenance
- shooting down
- shoots down
• misconceive
- mis conceive
- mis conceived
- mis conceives
- mis conceiving
- mis-conceive
- mis-conceived
- mis-conceives
- mis-conceiving
• mishandle
- mis handle
- mis manager
- mis managers
- mis-handle
- mis-manager
- mis-managers
- mismanagered
- mismanagering
• mishandle/mismanage
- are incompetent
- are inefficient
- art incompetent
- art inefficient
- being incompetent
- being inefficient
- flubbing
- goofed up
- goofing up
- goofs up
- is incompetent
- is inefficient
- made a hash of
- made a mess of
- made hash of
- made mess of
- make mess of
- makes a hash of
- makes a mess of
- makes hash of
- makes mess of
- making a hash of
- making a mess of
- making hash of
- making mess of
- maladministered
- maladministering
- maladministers
- mis applied
- mis applies
- mis apply
- mis applying
- mis conduct
- mis conducted
- mis conducting
- mis conducts
- mis direct
- mis directed
- mis directing
- mis directs
- mis employ
- mis employed
- mis employing
- mis employs
- mis govern
- mis governed
- mis governing
- mis governs
- mis handled
- mis handles
- mis handling
- mis managed
- mis manages
- mis managing
- mis treat
- mis treated
- mis treating
- mis treats
- mis used
- mis using
- mis-applied
- mis-applies
- mis-apply
- mis-applying
- mis-conduct
- mis-conducted
- mis-conducting
- mis-conducts
- mis-direct
- mis-directed
- mis-directing
- mis-directs
- mis-employ
- mis-employed
- mis-employing
- mis-employs
- mis-govern
- mis-governed
- mis-governing
- mis-governs
- mis-handled
- mis-handles
- mis-handling
- mis-managed
- mis-manages
- mis-managing
- mis-treat
- mis-treated
- mis-treating
- mis-treats
- mis-used
- mis-using
- misemployed
- misemploying
- misemploys
- misgoverns
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- puts foot in
- putting foot in
- shoot foot
- shoot in foot
- shoot oneself foot
- shooting foot
- shooting in foot
- shooting oneself foot
- shooting oneself in foot
- shoots foot
- shoots in foot
- shoots oneself foot
- shoots oneself in foot
- shot foot
- shot in foot
- shot oneself foot
- shot oneself in foot
- was incompetent
- was inefficient
- wast incompetent
- wast inefficient
- were incompetent
- were inefficient
- wert incompetent
- wert inefficient
• mismanage
- mis manage
- mis-manage
• misread
- mis read
- mis reading
- mis reads
- mis-read
- mis-reading
- mis-reads
• mistake
- am mark
- am off mark
- am off the mark
- am the mark
- am wrong
- are off the mark
- are the mark
- are wrong
- art mark
- art the mark
- art wrong
- be mark
- be off mark
- be the mark
- being mark
- being off mark
- being off the mark
- being the mark
- being wrong
- deceived oneself
- deceives oneself
- deceiving oneself
- gat wrong
- gets wrong
- getting wrong
- got wrong
- gotten wrong
- had wrong impression
- haddest wrong impression
- hadst wrong impression
- has wrong impression
- hast wrong impression
- hath wrong impression
- having wrong impression
- is mark
- is off mark
- is off the mark
- is the mark
- is wrong
- made a mess
- made mess
- makes a mess
- makes mess
- making a mess
- making mess
- mis apprehend
- mis apprehended
- mis apprehending
- mis apprehends
- mis calculate
- mis calculated
- mis calculates
- mis calculating
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construes
- mis construing
- mis counted
- mis counting
- mis counts
- mis deem
- mis deemed
- mis deeming
- mis deems
- mis interpret
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis judged
- mis judges
- mis judging
- mis knew
- mis know
- mis knowing
- mis known
- mis knows
- mis take
- mis taken
- mis takes
- mis taking
- mis took
- mis-apprehend
- mis-apprehended
- mis-apprehending
- mis-apprehends
- mis-calculate
- mis-calculated
- mis-calculates
- mis-calculating
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-counted
- mis-counting
- mis-counts
- mis-deem
- mis-deemed
- mis-deeming
- mis-deems
- mis-interpret
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interpreting
- mis-interprets
- mis-judged
- mis-judges
- mis-judging
- mis-knew
- mis-know
- mis-knowing
- mis-known
- mis-knows
- mis-take
- mis-taken
- mis-takes
- mis-taking
- mis-took
- misdeemed
- misdeeming
- misdeems
- misknew
- misknowing
- misknown
- misknows
- miss boat
- missed boat
- misses boat
- misses the boat
- missing boat
- missing the boat
- not knew
- not knows
- over estimate
- over estimated
- over estimates
- over estimating
- over-estimated
- over-estimates
- over-estimating
- slipt up
- takes for
- taking for
- took for
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under estimating
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimating
- was mark
- was off mark
- was off the mark
- was the mark
- was wrong
- wast mark
- wast off mark
- wast off the mark
- wast the mark
- wast wrong
- were mark
- were off mark
- were off the mark
- were the mark
- were wrong
- wert mark
- wert off mark
- wert off the mark
- wert the mark
- wert wrong
• misunderstand
- am at cross purposes
- am bewildered
- am confused
- am cross purposes
- am perplexed
- are at cross purposes
- are bewildered
- are confused
- are cross purposes
- are perplexed
- art at cross purposes
- art bewildered
- art confused
- art cross purposes
- art perplexed
- be cross purposes
- being at cross purposes
- being bewildered
- being confused
- being cross purposes
- being perplexed
- gat signals crossed
- gat signals mixed
- gat wrong impression
- gets signals crossed
- gets signals mixed
- gets wrong impression
- getting signals crossed
- getting signals mixed
- getting wrong impression
- got signals crossed
- got signals mixed
- got wrong impression
- gotten signals crossed
- gotten signals mixed
- gotten wrong impression
- is at cross purposes
- is bewildered
- is confused
- is cross purposes
- is perplexed
- mis comprehend
- mis comprehended
- mis comprehending
- mis comprehends
- mis reckon
- mis reckoned
- mis reckoning
- mis reckons
- mis understand
- mis understanding
- mis understands
- mis understood
- mis-comprehend
- mis-comprehended
- mis-comprehending
- mis-comprehends
- mis-reckon
- mis-reckoned
- mis-reckoning
- mis-reckons
- mis-understand
- mis-understanding
- mis-understands
- mis-understood
- miscomprehended
- miscomprehending
- miscomprehends
- miss point
- missed point
- missed the point
- misses point
- misses the point
- missing point
- missing the point
- not registering
- not registers
- takes amiss
- takes wrongly
- taking amiss
- taking wrongly
- took amiss
- took wrongly
- was at cross purposes
- was bewildered
- was confused
- was cross purposes
- was perplexed
- wast at cross purposes
- wast bewildered
- wast confused
- wast cross purposes
- wast perplexed
- were at cross purposes
- were bewildered
- were confused
- were cross purposes
- were perplexed
- wert at cross purposes
- wert bewildered
- wert confused
- wert cross purposes
- wert perplexed
• mortify
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- gat comeuppance
- gat one comeuppance
- gat one's comeuppance
- gat ones comeuppance
- get one comeuppance
- get ones comeuppance
- gets comeuppance
- gets one comeuppance
- gets one's comeuppance
- gets ones comeuppance
- getting comeuppance
- getting one comeuppance
- getting one's comeuppance
- getting ones comeuppance
- got comeuppance
- got one comeuppance
- got one's comeuppance
- got ones comeuppance
- gotten comeuppance
- gotten one comeuppance
- gotten one's comeuppance
- gotten ones comeuppance
- take wind out
- takes the wind out
- takes wind out
- taking the wind out
- taking wind out
- took the wind out
- took wind out
• muddle
- Misarranged
- Misarranging
- mis arrange
- mis arranged
- mis arranges
- mis arranging
- mis-arrange
- mis-arranged
- mis-arranges
- mis-arranging
- misarranges
• mystify
- fogging in
- fogs in
• nonplus
- rattle cage
- rattle one cage
- rattle ones cage
- rattled cage
- rattled one cage
- rattled one's cage
- rattled ones cage
- rattles cage
- rattles one cage
- rattles one's cage
- rattles ones cage
- rattling cage
- rattling one cage
- rattling one's cage
- rattling ones cage
Other synonyms:

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beat

•

negative
withdraw

•

claim
cloud
fog
put on

•

correct

•

dizzy
lose

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• amaze

astound

• ball up

make unclear

• bamboozle

hoodwinked
swindle

• becloud

• complicate

• conceal

becloud

• confuse

• confute

• defeat

• derange

• dismay

throw into a tizzy

• disorder

• disprove

Negatived
Negativing
find unfounded
knock bottom out of
knock props out
poke holes in
shoot holes in

• embroil

• flabbergast

• frighten

petrify

• humble

• mishandle

• mystify

• nonplus

rattle one's cage
throw into tizzy

• put on

playact
put on a front
put on act

• put out

• shame

give a black eye
give black eye

• stymie

• surprise

• Other relevant words (adjective):

underwhelm

• Other relevant words (noun):

enigma

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

What are the paraphrases for Confound?

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Independent
- Verb, base form
  blur, distort, equate.
Other Related
- Verb, base form
  confuse.

What are the hypernyms for Confound?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
bewilder, confuse, disconcert, perplex.

What are the opposite words for confound?

Confounding is a word that is often used in conversations related to confusion, puzzlement or befuddlement. However, did you know there are several antonyms for the word confound that can be used to specify the opposite meaning? One antonym of confound is clarify, which means to make something clearer or more understandable. Another antonym of confound is enlighten, which means to give information or understanding to someone. An additional antonym for confound is untangle, which refers to unraveling something that is confusing or complicated. Lastly, there is the antonym of solve, which means to find a solution to a problem. All these words provide an accurate and distinct meaning that can be used to express the opposite of the word confound.

What are the antonyms for Confound?

n.
• noun
- advocate
- countenance
- sanction
- support
v.
• confuse
- bore
- calm
- clarify
- clear up
- comfort
- divide
- enlighten
- expect
- explain
- explicate
- help
- make clear
- relate
- separate
- unmix
• enlighten
- cause to understand
- cause understand
- caused to understand
- caused understand
- causes to understand
- causes understand
- causing to understand
- causing understand
- co unselling
- co-unselling
- dis close
- dis closed
- dis closes
- dis closing
- dis-close
- dis-closed
- dis-closes
- dis-closing
- gave faith
- gave lowdown
- gave the lowdown
- gave the word
- gave word
- give faith
- give lowdown
- give the lowdown
- give the word
- give word
- gives faith
- gives lowdown
- gives the lowdown
- gives the word
- gives word
- giving faith
- giving lowdown
- giving the lowdown
- giving the word
- giving word
- in form
- in forming
- in forms
- in spirit
- in spirited
- in spiriting
- in spirits
- in-forming
- in-forms
- in-spirit
- in-spirited
- in-spiriting
- in-spirits
- let in on
- lets in on
- letted in on
- letting in on
- open up
- opened up
- opening up
- opens up
- pre ached
- pre aching
- pre-ached
- pre-aching
- put on to
- put to
- puts on to
- puts to
- putting on to
- putting to
- re veals
- re-veal
- re-veals
- up date
- up dated
- up dates
- up dating
- up lift
- up lifted
- up lifting
- up lifts
- up-date
- up-dated
- up-dates
- up-dating
- up-lift
- up-lifted
- up-lifting
- up-lifts
- update
• noun
- adduce
- animate
- assure
- attest
- authenticate
- back
- buoy
- buttress
- certify
- cheer
- confirm
- console
- corroborate
- difference
- display
- document
- establish
- evidence
- evince
- hearten
- identify
- inform
- inspirit
- manifest
- prove
- rally
- reassure
- record
- relieve
- satisfy
- show
- soothe
- substantiate
- uphold
- validate
- verify
- witness
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Usage examples for Confound

confound it all, the Chesters were not so many!

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

Tommy said suddenly, 'Oh, confound!

"The Furnace"

Rose Macaulay

My dear young lady, confound his great picture!

"Four Meetings"

Henry James

Famous quotes with Confound

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Aeschylus
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

George Byron
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

John Millington Synge
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Kit Williams

Related words: confounding factors, confounding variables, confounding variables in statistics, confounding factor in research

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Does confounding explain?

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