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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
confound .
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Examples
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But thou, O Herodotus, transferest the full moon from the middle to the beginning of the month, and at the same time confoundest the heavens, days, and all things; and yet thou dost claim to be the historian of Greece!
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And he cried out and said — “O Shah of birds, O bird of God, who confoundest the wicked, mayst thou be great for ever.”
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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He had the confoundest luck, and at the same time can shoot a gun as well as Boone, or you or me.
The Phantom of the River Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Thou grindest us into desperation; thou confoundest all our boasted and most deep-rooted principles; thou fillest us to the very brim with malice and revenge, and renderest us capable of acts of unknown horror!
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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Wrongs undress'd and insults unavenged; that summonest to the chancery of dreams, for the triumphs of suffering innocence, false witnesses; and confoundest perjury, and dost reverse the sentences of unrighteous judges; -- thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples beyond the art of Phidias and Praxiteles -- beyond the splendour of Babylon and Hekatompylos, and "from the anarchy of dreaming sleep" callest into sunny light the faces of long-buried beauties and the blessed household countenances cleansed from the "dishonours of the grave."
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Wrongs undress’d and insults unavenged; that summonest to the chancery of dreams, for the triumphs of suffering innocence, false witnesses; and confoundest perjury, and dost reverse the sentences of unrighteous judges; — thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples beyond the art of Phidias and
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