confound

confound fiction and fact.

we will confound these tactics by the pressure groups.

Don't confound the means with the ends.

Close that confounded window.

an invention that confounded the skeptics.

the inflation figure confounded economic analysts.

the rise in prices confounded expectations.

oh confound it, where is the thing?.

That confounded boy's bad behaviour annoys me.

The fugitive doubled back to confound the pursuers.

Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.

picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.

The extraordinary election results confounded the government.

I've been kept waiting a confounded long time.

A crowd of confounded bystanders stared at the appalling wreckage.

You are confounded at my violence and passion, and I am enraged at your cold insensibility and want of feeling.