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confoundingverbpresent participle of confound to throw into a state of mental uncertaintywe were confounded by the player's remote control, which wasn't at all user-friendly addling, baffling, bamboozling, beating, befogging, befuddling, bemusing, bewildering, buffaloing, confusing, discombobulating, disorienting, flummoxing, foxing, fuddling, getting, graveling(or gravelling), mazing, muddling, muddying, mystifying, perplexing, posing, puzzling, vexing sticking, stumping, weirding outabashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingagitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingbeguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking blowing one's mind, going to one's head assuring, reassuring, satisfyingenlightening, informing to throw into a state of self-conscious distresshis renewed popularity has confounded the critics who said his singing career was dead abashing, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, putting off, putting out, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingdebasing, degrading, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, queering, shaming calming, comforting, consoling, relieving, soothingbuoying, cheering, emboldening, encouraging, hearteningassuring, reassuring to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or relatedI think you've confounded astrology with astronomy conflating, confusing, mistaking, mixing (up) lumping (together)misapplying, miscalling, misidentifying, misnaming differencing, differentiating, discriminating, distinguishing, separating to prove to be falsenew discoveries that confound much of what archaeologists thought they knew about the Mayan civilization belying, confuting, debunking, disconfirming, discrediting, disproving, falsifying, rebutting, refuting, shooting down overthrowing, overturningchallenging, contesting, querying, questioningdoubting, mistrustingdebating, discussing, hashing (over), mooting, talking over giving the lie to confirming, establishing, proving, validating, verifying documenting, evidencing, evincing, recording, showing, supporting, witnessingbacking (up), buttressing, corroborating, substantiatingadducing, attesting, authenticating, certifying, identifyingdemonstrating, displaying, illustrating, manifesting |