confounded

Definitions

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of confound

   • Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.
2. 2

   Confused, astonished.

   • The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what.
3. 3

   Defeated, thwarted.

   • Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […]
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   1. 4

      Extremely bad

      Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

      • The confounded thing doesn't work.
      • "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."
      • Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.

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