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    confounded


    1. When those three different sorts of revenue belong to different persons, they are readily distinguished; but when they belong to the same, they are sometimes confounded with one another, at least in common language


    2. Wages, therefore, are in this case confounded with profit


    3. His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit


    4. Both rent and profit are, in this case, confounded with wages


    5. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally both farmers and landlords, and where rent, consequently, is confounded with profit, the cultivation of rice is found to be more profitable than that of corn, though their fields produce only one crop in the year, and though, from the prevalence of the customs of Europe, rice is not there the common and favourite vegetable food of the people


    6. 'With the confounded goat who ate the Klaxons wire


    7. I had him in my sights during the months he flew in a net under that confounded lighter-than-air animal that blindsided me


    8. The Breton woman positively confounded the Stormcloak soldiers


    9. As a shilling fresh from the mint will buy no more goods in the market than one of our common worn shillings, so the good and true money which might be brought from the coffers of the bank into those of a private person, being mixed and confounded with the common currency of the country, would be of no more value than that currency, from which it could no longer be readily distinguished


    10. The proposition is so very manifest, that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it ; nor could it ever have been called in question, had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind

    11. When the greater part of the coin, however, was in this degenerate condition, forty four guineas and a-half, fresh from the mint, would purchase no more goods in the market than any other ordinary guineas; because, when they came into the coffers of the merchant, being confounded with other money, they could not afterwards be distinguished without more trouble than the difference was worth


    12. He turned his confounded gaze upward, noting the clouds sliding against the darkening expanse


    13. He lifted the clock off a small table, stared at its face, confounded by how it could be so late, how thirty-five minutes could've passed by since the alarm was supposed to have gone off


    14. He took pleasure in the thought that in spite of their technological superiority these invaders seemed confounded when it came to running trading blocks


    15. “Where’s that confounded bridge?” I grunted


    16. “I find myself confounded by this McGill business,” I admitted to the Adj


    17. They heard confounded voices shouting directions


    18. He tried to remember more of what the voice had been saying to them, but he had been utterly confounded by its meager explanations


    19. While Celia instinctively rocked him gently, the girl nodded with bewilderment before speaking in a confounded voice as low as a whisper:


    20. Had he made an error? Was this not God’s will? He listened to his thoughts and was confounded

    21. His face was motionless, unable to look anything other than utterly confounded


    22. Ethan’s confounded look was exaggerated by his dumbstruck tone of voice:


    23. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as


    24. I suppose it was some of them confounded old maids at the Glen, was it


    25. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came in there, and were ashamed


    26. 5 They cried to you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded


    27. 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek


    28. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion


    29. for they shall not be confounded that put their trust in you


    30. desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen

    31. 9 Moreover those who work in fine flax, and those who weave networks, shall be confounded


    32. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of


    33. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of


    34. you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish


    35. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed nor confounded of


    36. God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed


    37. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,


    38. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven


    39. found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads


    40. confounded, and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the Lord

    41. 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let


    42. eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your


    43. repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach


    44. 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall


    45. Misgab is confounded and dismayed


    46. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard evil


    47. confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces


    48. her whole land shall be confounded, and all her killed shall fall in the midst of her


    49. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame


    50. gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: those who worship them shall be confounded












































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    Synonyms for "confounded"

    at sea baffled befuddled bemused bewildered confounded confused lost mazed mixed-up doubtful disconcerted nonplussed mystified dumfounded

    "confounded" definitions

    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment