confound

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"There was paper enough to make a dozen But," cried Marcel, tearing his hair, "we must have some things--confound it!"

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  1. transitive verb To cause to become confused or perplexed. See Synonyms at puzzle.
  2. transitive verb To fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact.
  3. transitive verb To make (something bad) worse: Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.

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  1. Middle English confounden, from Anglo-Norman confundre, from Latin cōnfundere, to mix together, confuse : com-, com- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English confounden, confunden, from Old French confondre, cunfundre, French confondre = Provencal confondre = Spanish Portuguese confundir = Italian confondere, from Latin confundere, past participle confusus, pour out together, mingle, confuse, perplex, disturb, confound, from com-, together, + fundere, past participle fusus, pour: see founds and fuse. Cf. confuse.
 

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/kənˈfaʊnd/
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