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Difference Between Confound and Confusticate

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Confound

Cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by not according with their expectations
The inflation figure confounded economic analysts

Confusticate

To confuse, confound, or perplex.

Confound

Mix up (something) with something else
He was forever confounding managerialism with idealism

Confound

Used to express anger or annoyance
Oh confound it, where is the thing?

Confound

To cause to become confused or perplexed.
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Confound

To fail to distinguish; mix up
Don't confound fiction and fact.

Confound

To make (something bad) worse
Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.

Confound

To cause to be ashamed; abash
An invention that confounded the skeptics.

Confound

Used in mild curses
Confound you!.

Confound

To frustrate or thwart
Trivial demands that confounded the peace talks.
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Confound

(Archaic) To defeat or overthrow (an enemy).

Confound

To perplex or puzzle.

Confound

To stun or amaze.

Confound

To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

Confound

To make something worse.
Don't confound the situation by yelling.

Confound

To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.

Confound

To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
His actions confounded the skeptics.

Confound

To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

Confound

(dated) To damn (a mild oath).
Confound you!
Confound the lady!

Confound

(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

Confound

(statistics) A confounding variable.

Confound

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute.
Let us go down, and there confound their language.

Confound

To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
They [the tinkers] were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies.

Confound

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
The gods confound...The Athenians both within and out that wall.
They trusted in thee and were not confounded.
So spake the Son of God, and Satan stoodA while as mute, confounded what to say.

Confound

To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
One man's lust these many lives confounds.
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour?

Confound

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;
These questions confuse even the experts
This question completely threw me
This question befuddled even the teacher

Confound

Mistake one thing for another;
You are confusing me with the other candidate
I mistook her for the secretary

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