confound
31confound — verb Syn: baffle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, dumbfound, throw; informal flabbergast, flummox …
32confound — [kənˈfaʊnd] verb [T] to make someone feel surprised or confused by not behaving in the way they expect …
33confound — Ho okahuli, ho ohuikau …
34confound it! — Excl. of annoyance …
35confound — [13] Latin confundere literally meant ‘pour together’; it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com ‘together’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’ and fuse). This sense was later extended figuratively to ‘mix up, fail to… …
36confound you! — conˈfound it/you! idiom (old fashioned) used to show that you are angry about sth/with sb Main entry: ↑confoundidiom …
37Procedural confound — A procedural confound is a type of confound that can occur in a laboratory experiment or a quasi experiment. This type of confound occurs when the researcher mistakenly allows another variable to change along with the manipulated independent… …
38Operational confound — In design of experiments, a subdiscipline of statistics, an operational confound is a type of confound that can occur in both experimental and nonexperimental research designs. This type of confound occurs when a measure designed to assess a… …
39Confounded — Confound Con*found (k[o^]n*found ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confounding}.] [F. confondre, fr. L. confundere, fusum, to pour together; con + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt, and cf. {Confuse}.] 1. To mingle and blend …
40Confounding — Confound Con*found (k[o^]n*found ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confounding}.] [F. confondre, fr. L. confundere, fusum, to pour together; con + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt, and cf. {Confuse}.] 1. To mingle and blend …
