Associations to the word «Confounding»

Wiktionary

CONFOUND, verb. To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
CONFOUND, verb. To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
CONFOUND, verb. To make something worse.
CONFOUND, verb. To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
CONFOUND, verb. To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
CONFOUND, verb. (dated) To damn (a mild oath).
CONFOUND, verb. (archaic) To bring to ruination.
CONFOUND, verb. To stun, amaze
CONFOUND, noun. (statistics) a confounding variable

Dictionary definition

CONFOUND, verb. Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher".
CONFOUND, verb. Mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats