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confounding 音標拼音: [kənf'ɑʊndɪŋ] 混淆 混淆 confounding adj 1: that confounds or contradicts or confuses [ synonym: { confounding}, { contradictory}] Confound \ Con* found"\ ( k[ o^] n* found"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Confounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Confounding}.] [ F. confondre, fr. L. confundere, - fusum, to pour together; con- fundere to pour. See { Fuse} to melt, and cf. { Confuse}.] 1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse. [ 1913 Webster] They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Let us go down, and there confound their language. -- Gen. xi. 7. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To mistake for another; to identify falsely. [ 1913 Webster] They [ the tinkers] were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay. [ 1913 Webster] The gods confound... The Athenians both within and out that wall. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] They trusted in thee and were not confounded. -- Ps. xxii. 5. [ 1913 Webster] So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To destroy; to ruin; to waste. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] One man' s lust these many lives confounds. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour? -- Shak. Syn: To abash; confuse; baffle; dismay; astonish; defeat; terrify; mix; blend; intermingle. See { Abash}. [ 1913 Webster]
confounding \ confounding\ adj. tending to contradict ( a hypothesis). Syn: contradictory. [ WordNet 1. 5]
confounding \ confounding\ n. a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another. Syn: confusion, mix- up. [ WordNet 1. 5]
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