All 33 Uses of
confound
in
Lord Jim
- They said 'Confounded fool!' as soon as his back was turned.†
Chpt 1 *
- Above could be heard a great scurrying about and shouting, and when he got through the hatchway he stood still—as if confounded.†
Chpt 1
- He mumbled to himself; all I heard of it were a few words that sounded like "confounded steam!" and "infernal steam!†
Chpt 4
- Complete strangers would accost each other familiarly, just for the sake of easing their minds on the subject: every confounded loafer in the town came in for a harvest of drinks over this affair: you heard of it in the harbour office, at every ship-broker's, at your agent's, from whites, from natives, from half-castes, from the very boatmen squatting half naked on the stone steps as you went up—by Jove!†
Chpt 5
- I waited to see him overwhelmed, confounded, pierced through and through, squirming like an impaled beetle—and I was half afraid to see it too—if you understand what I mean.†
Chpt 5
- This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that's enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.†
Chpt 6
- Confound him!†
Chpt 6
- He appeared at first uncomprehending, then confounded, and at last amazed and scared as though a dog had been a monster and he had never seen a dog before.†
Chpt 6
- He discovered at once a desire that I should not confound him with his partners in—in crime, let us call it.†
Chpt 7
- I had not even laughed at him when—here he began to mumble—"that mistake, you know—made a confounded ass of myself."†
Chpt 7
- His confounded imagination had evoked for him all the horrors of panic, the trampling rush, the pitiful screams, boats swamped—all the appalling incidents of a disaster at sea he had ever heard of.†
Chpt 7
- A confounded democratic quality of vision which may be better than total blindness, but has been of no advantage to me, I can assure you.†
Chpt 8
- A straight edge of vapour lined with sickly whitish gleams flies up from the southwest, swallowing the stars in whole constellations; its shadow flies over the waters, and confounds sea and sky into one abyss of obscurity.†
Chpt 9
- Nothing outside that confounded boat and those two yapping before me like a couple of mean mongrels at a tree'd thief.†
Chpt 10
- At that he collected himself for a confounded screech.†
Chpt 10
- And he had been deliberating upon death—confound him!†
Chpt 11
- Confound it!†
Chpt 11
- I was confoundedly cut up.†
Chpt 11
- I am pleased, of course, that some good—and even some splendour—came out of my endeavours; but at times it seems to me it would have been better for my peace of mind if I had not stood between him and Chester's confoundedly generous offer.†
Chpt 16
- And I can keep it up, too—only, confound it! you show me a door.†
Chpt 22
- I'm ready for any confounded thing ….†
Chpt 23
- Confound your delicacy!†
Chpt 24
- And I couldn't get anything to eat either, unless I made a row about it, and then it was only a small plate of rice and a fried fish not much bigger than a stickleback—confound them!†
Chpt 25
- Started a confounded long story about some brass pots.†
Chpt 27
- Here's a friend come," …. and suddenly peering at me in the dim verandah, he mumbled earnestly, "You know—this—no confounded nonsense about it—can't tell you how much I owe to her—and so—you understand—I—exactly as if …."†
Chpt 28
- He flew at me every morning to shake both my hands—confound him!†
Chpt 29
- ' "Confound you!"†
Chpt 32
- And as I remained confounded, she stamped with her foot like a spoilt child.†
Chpt 33
- It was too confoundedly awful.†
Chpt 34
- A tumult of war-cries, the vibrating clang of gongs, the deep snoring of drums, yells of rage, crashes of volley-firing, made an awful din, in which Brown sat confounded but steady at the tiller, working himself into a fury of hate and rage against those people who dared to defend themselves.†
Chpt 38
- Some confounded fellow had apparently accomplished something of the kind—single-handed at that.†
Chpt 39
- He could not imagine such a chap (who must be confoundedly clever after all to get hold of the natives like that) refusing a help that would do away with the necessity for slow, cautious, risky cheating, that imposed itself as the only possible line of conduct for a single-handed man.†
Chpt 40
- I remembered all these stories while, wiping his matted lump of a beard with a livid hand, he was telling me from his noisome couch how he got round, got in, got home, on that confounded, immaculate, don't-you-touch-me sort of fellow.†
Chpt 41
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!"