confounded
/kənˈfaʊndɪd/ adjective C2- Confused, astonished.
- Defeated, thwarted.
- Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier. · The confounded thing doesn't work.
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Matthew was confounded and puzzled; he could not so quickly lose faith in Anne but he had to admit that circumstances were against her.
"Well, we'll hope he won't fail and that Lord Cantlemere will be confounded.
“What a confounded long time this first act lasts.
Then the foolish criminal is taken, imprisoned, interrogated, confronted, confounded, condemned, and cut off by hemp or steel; or if she be a woman of any consideration, they lock her up for life.
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