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confound

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/kənˈfaʊnd/Used In Literature ↓

A confounding variable.

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Poetry examples for “confound”

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And envied thirst and hunger to the poor.
Or shall we every decency confound,
Through taverns, stews, and bagnios take our round,

8 My friends, by turns, my friends confound,
Betray, and are betray'd:

The scolding quean to louder notes doth rise,
And her full pipes those shrilling cries confound;
To her full pipes the grunting hog replies;

And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy;
Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,
And hew triumphal arches to the ground.

Hold up, you beast, now what the devil!
Confound this moor for a pockholed, evil,
Rotten marsh. My right leg's snapped.

And is withal perfum'd with civet hot,
Which doth her valiant stinking breath confound,--
Yet she with these additions is no more

But, when they came where thou thy skill didst shew,
They drew aback, as half with shame confound
Shepheard to see, them in their art outgo.

At once fled unto him, and staid with mee.
Base excrement of earth, which dost confound
Sense, from distinguishing the sicke from sound;

"And sleeping pangs awake--and----But away"--
(Confound me if I know what next to say).
Lo "Hope reviving re-expands her wings,"

And cavill’d at his image in the flood. 30
‘The deuce confound,’ he cries, ‘these drumstick shanks,
They never have my gratitude nor thanks;