confound
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“Damn and blast it! Confound it! Wake up!” the conductor and composer Otto Nicolai wrote in his impassioned draft of the Vienna Philharmonic’s foundation charter, left, in the spring of 1842.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017
Confound that difficulty with the terror that comes with striking out on your own, and you’re in for a bumpy ride.
From Forbes • Jan. 26, 2015
It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save us all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell."
From Time Magazine Archive
Confound it, man, that's the kind of thing we shook off centuries ago.
From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert
Vocabulary lists containing confound
100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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