All 15 Uses of
confound
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "Unfortunately I feel myself compelled to go to this confounded dinner," said Miuesov with the same irritability, regardless of the fact that the monk was listening.†
Chpt 2
- Confound this dinner!†
Chpt 2
- I believe it, since you say so, but confound you, and your brother Ivan with you.†
Chpt 2 *
- The Father Superior bowed his head at his malicious lie, and again spoke impressively: "It is written again, 'Bear circumspectly and gladly dishonor that cometh upon thee by no act of thine own, be not confounded and hate not him who hath dishonored thee.'†
Chpt 2
- Confound it, I have some honor!†
Chpt 3
- Confound you, speak more plainly.†
Chpt 5
- How can you be so sure you are going to have a fit, confound you?†
Chpt 5
- Confound it!†
Chpt 5
- Confound him!†
Chpt 5
- And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings.†
Chpt 6
- …speakers that "this is not held everywhere alike," and that the incorruptibility of the bodies of the just was not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but only an opinion, and that even in the most Orthodox regions, at Athos for instance, they were not greatly confounded by the smell of corruption, and there the chief sign of the glorification of the saved was not bodily incorruptibility, but the color of the bones when the bodies have lain many years in the earth and have decayed in it.†
Chpt 7
- Confound it!†
Chpt 8
- Confound his sorrow!†
Chpt 9
- Confound my temper!†
Chpt 11
- Alyosha stood speechless and confounded; he had never expected what he was seeing.†
Chpt Epil.
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!"