Crossword-Solution: CONFOUND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Confound | v. t. | To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse. |
| Confound | v. t. | To mistake for another; to identify falsely. |
| Confound | v. t. | To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay. |
| Confound | v. t. | To destroy; to ruin; to waste. |
We have 84 clues for the answer “CONFOUND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CONFUSE in idea | 1 answer |
| Confuse or perplex | 1 answer |
| DEFEAT plan | 1 answer |
| Surprise, confuse | 1 answer |
| Mistake one thing for another | 2 answers |
| disconfirm | 3 answers |
| Rebut | 12 answers |
| Disprove | 14 answers |
| ball up | 16 answers |
| misconstrue | 16 answers |
| Controvert | 17 answers |
| misinterpret | 18 answers |
| disorientate | 18 answers |
| misunderstand | 19 answers |
| confute | 21 answers |
| ASK A TOUGHIE | 21 answers |
| Discomfit | 21 answers |
| Flummox | 22 answers |
| make a fool of | 23 answers |
| Dumbfound | 23 answers |
| MAKE stupid | 24 answers |
| Astonish | 25 answers |
| misread | 25 answers |
| Possess | 26 answers |
| MAKE difficult | 27 answers |
| Flabbergast | 28 answers |
| Faze | 30 answers |
| knock down | 32 answers |
| Refute | 33 answers |
| Addle | 34 answers |
| enshroud | 34 answers |
| Encode | 35 answers |
| Circumvent | 35 answers |
| derange | 35 answers |
| Stagger | 37 answers |
| Mystify | 37 answers |
| Abash | 37 answers |
| befog | 38 answers |
| Bewitch | 39 answers |
| Discon-cert | 39 answers |
| Mix up | 40 answers |
| Bedevil | 41 answers |
| Stupefy | 42 answers |
| Befuddle | 42 answers |
| Rattle | 42 answers |
| Embarrass | 42 answers |
| Mix-up | 43 answers |
| flatten | 45 answers |
| Amaze | 46 answers |
| shroud | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONFOUND (5)
Thus _Beelzebub_ Pleaded his devilish Counsel, first devis’d By _Satan_, and in part propos’d: for whence, But from the Author of all ill could Spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spite The great Creatour? But thir spite still serves His glory to augment.
And we ought not to confound speech with the natural movements which indicate the passions, and can be imitated by machines as well as manifested by animals; nor must it be thought with certain of the ancients, that the brutes speak, although we do not understand their language.
Picks and shovels—why, they wouldn’t furnish ’em to a king.” “Well, then,” I says, “if we don’t want the picks and shovels, what do we want?” “A couple of case-knives.” “To dig the foundations out from under that cabin with?” “Yes.” “Confound it, it’s foolish, Tom.” “It don’t make no difference how foolish it is, it’s the _right_ way—and it’s the regular way.
The habitual scowl of her brow was undeniably too fierce, at this moment, to pass itself off on the innocent score of near-sightedness; and it was bent on Judge Pyncheon in a way that seemed to confound, if not alarm him, so inadequately had he estimated the moral force of a deeply grounded antipathy.
Still perhaps she--” He paused and added, with a laugh: “Royal attentions are hard to resist--you know that, don’t you, Rudolf?” “Confound you!” said I; and rising, I left the hapless Bertram in George’s hands and went home to bed.
Quotes with CONFOUND (3)
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify …
Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2010–2014).