OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13102

confound

/kənˈfaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
barahustar • barajustar • baraustar • confundir
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
1651 (Latin edition 1642), Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (Latin title) Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (English), Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of…
empeorar
To make something worse.
Don't confound the situation by yelling.
While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his "Latin American macho attitude." To confound the problem, his mot…