confound

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈfaʊnd/

動詞

禁用 時々 古風 古語

To perplex or puzzle. / To stun or amaze. / To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong. / (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.

日本語の意味

（人を）混乱させる、当惑させる / （人を）驚かせる、圧倒する / 正しいものと間違ったものを見分けられなくする、混同させる / （時に）状況を悪化させる

英語の意味

To perplex or puzzle. / To stun or amaze. / To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong. / (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.

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The magician's unexpected trick continued to confound the audience long after the show ended.

その手品師の予期せぬトリックは、公演が終わった後も観客を困惑させ続けた。

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意味（1）

To perplex or puzzle.

And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.

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意味（2）

To stun or amaze.

意味（3）

To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.

Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.

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意味（4）

(sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.

Don't confound the situation by yelling.

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意味（5）

To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.

There the freſh and ſalt water would meete and be confounded together, […]

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意味（6）

To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

His actions confounded the skeptics.

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意味（7）

To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

But God hath choſen the fooliſh things of the woꝛld, to confound the wiſe: and God hath choſen the weake things of the woꝛld, to confound the things which are mighty:

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意味（8）

(dated) To damn (a mild oath).

Confound you!

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意味（9）

(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.

To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquiſht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe / Confounded though immortal: But his doom[…]

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confounds （ present singular third-person ）

confounding （ participle present ）

confounded （ participle past ）

confounded （ past ）