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She confounded her critics.confounded = frustrated
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When he spoke about his father, Marguerite recalled the many nights he had spent enraged at the man, confounded by his silence. (source)
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He appeared confounded for a moment. (source)confounded = confused
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Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official detective force! (source)confound = confuse
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"It would please me to shake the teeth out of your confounded face!" replied Hold-Your-Nose Billy. (source)confounded = an old-fashioned word expressing frustration or annoyance
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I didn't do nothin' to that confounded Lillian Jean.† (source)confounded = confused or frustrated
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The chef and maitre d' were so confounded by his sudden appearance that they simply stared.† (source)confounded = confused or frustrated
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Essay understood the exercise at once, and how to confound it.† (source)confound = confuse or frustrate
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The question bothered him, because he wasn't sure whether he was confounding or fulfilling their expectations.† (source)confounding = confusing or frustrating
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Lale has often been astounded by the things he has seen in both camps, but for Hoess to think only one girl is beautiful, out of the hundreds of thousands who have come through, truly confounds him.† (source)confounds = confuses or frustrates
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You're too confoundedly philosophic for me.† (source)
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Even though they were intimately together, they were confoundingly alone.† (source)confoundingly = in a manner that confuses or frustrates
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We resolved to dispose of ourselves and effects in any other way possible, than enter on board that ill-fated vessel more; for no state can be more miserable than a continued fear, which is a life of death, a confounder of our understandings, that sets the imagination at work to form a thousand frightful things that may never happen.† (source)
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There was one that told my lord a parcel of the confoundedest lies about me; he said that I used to drive my hogs into other folk's gardens, and a great deal more; and at last he said, he hoped I had at last brought my hogs to a fair market.† (source)confoundedest = most confusing or frustrating OR (archaically) to confuse or frustrate
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Scupper had not attended the trial because of his work, he'd said, but mostly because his son's long attachment to Miss Clark confounded him.† (source)confounded = confused or frustrated
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She was paired with the one person who could confound her plans, manipulate her moves, keep her from the truth.† (source)confound = confuse or frustrate
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