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CONFOUND

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confound verb tranzitiv

1. a confunda, a lua drept altul.

2. a amesteca, a încurca, a încâlci, a răvăşi, a zăpăci.

3. a uimi, a ului, a înmărmuri; a buimăci, a deconcerta, a lăsa perplex, a stupefia.

4. (înv.) a umili, a da de ruşine.

5. a nărui, a răsturna, a zădărnici, a dejuca (planuri).

◊ confound it! la dracu! la naiba! drăcia dracului!

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"I've got to stay for this confounded supper, but I shall be home early tomorrow. You'll come and meet me as usual, girls?" Laurie said, as he put the sisters into the carriage after the joys of the day were over.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Confound these civilities!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When my Em'ly took flight, he said, in stern wrath for the moment, from the house wheer she was made a prisoner by that theer spotted snake as Mas'r Davy see,—and his story's trew, and may GOD confound him!—she took flight in the night.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

May the Father of all Evil confound him, said the little woman, holding up her forefinger between me and her sparkling eyes, and ten times more confound that wicked servant; but I believed it was YOU who had a boyish passion for her!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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