confound
Example Sentences
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Add to that complexities of water that confound searching, especially near the Arctic.
Shiffrin’s struggles at the Games are even more confounding in the context of her career.
The analysis illuminates one of the most confounding aspects of “Beloved”: the character called Beloved is the ghost of the murdered daughter and also of an unknown soul who died in the Middle Passage.
My breath has power, to confound and control.
From Literature
Those experiences helped pave the way for Coinbase, which set about to solve a problem that confounded those eager to invest in cryptocurrencies: There was no place for people to store their digital assets.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
