All 12 Uses of
confound
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Oh, God confound you, Mr. Lockwood!†
Chpt 3 *
- …the road, at intervals of six or seven yards, a line of upright stones, continued through the whole length of the barren: these were erected and daubed with lime on purpose to serve as guides in the dark, and also when a fall, like the present, confounded the deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path: but, excepting a dirty dot pointing up here and there, all traces of their existence had vanished: and my companion found it necessary to warn me frequently to steer to the right or…†
Chpt 3
- His sister began weeping to go home, and Cathy stood by confounded, blushing for all.†
Chpt 7
- 'You lie, Cathy, no doubt,' answered her brother, 'and you are a confounded simpleton!†
Chpt 9
- No, no, Isabella, you sha'n't run off,' she continued, arresting, with feigned playfulness, the confounded girl, who had risen indignantly.†
Chpt 10
- 'Among his books!' she cried, confounded.†
Chpt 12
- There he has continued, praying like a Methodist: only the deity he implored is senseless dust and ashes; and God, when addressed, was curiously confounded with his own black father!†
Chpt 17
- Oh, confound the vapid thing!†
Chpt 21
- And what quite confounded me, when he did open his mouth, it was to utter the falsehood that I had occasioned the uproar, and Hareton was not to blame!†
Chpt 24
- Mr. Heathcliff, perceiving us all confounded, rose, and expeditiously made the tea himself.†
Chpt 27
- He, poor man, was perfectly aghast at the spectacle of Catherine seated on the same bench with Hareton Earnshaw, leaning her hand on his shoulder; and confounded at his favourite's endurance of her proximity: it affected him too deeply to allow an observation on the subject that night.†
Chpt 32
- The master seemed confounded a moment: he grew pale, and rose up, eyeing her all the while, with an expression of mortal hate.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(confound) to confuse, prove wrong, frustrate, or express frustrationin various senses, including:
confuse or surprise -- sometimes specifically to confuse one thing with another
- "confounded by the puzzle" -- confused or perplexed
- "Test results confounded the experts." -- surprised and confused
- "Do not confound confidence with correctness." -- mistake one thing for another
prove wrong, defeat, or frustrate
- "The test results confounded my theory." -- proved wrong
- "Their defense confounded our offense." -- defeated or frustrated
make worse
- "She confounded the problem by painting without sanding." -- made worse
- "The task is complicated by other confounding factors." -- making worse
an exclamation expressing anger or frustration
- "Confound it! Will I ever get this thing to work?"
- "I don't understand the confounded directions!"