confounded

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In Crowne's The Country Wit (1675) Act iii, I, there is a rather stupid play on this sense of the word confounded with its meaning 'a hall or lobby p. 63 Cracking_.

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  1. adjective Confused; befuddled: A crowd of confounded bystanders stared at the appalling wreckage.
  2. adjective Used as an intensive: a confounded fool.

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/kənˈfaʊndɛd/
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