simple past and past participle of confound
Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.
Confused, astonished.
The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what.
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Defeated, thwarted.
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […]
Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.
The confounded thing doesn't work.