CONFOUND Copy link • CONFOUNDmix together in confusion or entanglement, implicare (PROP., and figuratively, ): turbare. conturbare: perturbare (to put into disorder, general term): conturbare and perturbare (also = to perplex, to disturb): miscere: permiscere (figuratively to throw into disorder by entangling together): confundere (to pour together; hence figuratively to put into disorder; then to disturb; to perplex): to confound anybody’s project, rationes alicui conturbare: to confound every thing, omnia perturbare or miscere: [Vid: CONFUSE.] To take in a wrong sense, aliquem alium esse putare (to take anybody for anybody else): aliquid confundere aliqua re (to confound anything with anything, to mix; e.g., vera falsis). To abash, pudorem alicui injicere, incutere: ruborem alicui afferre (to cause to blush, Tac., Ann., 13, 15, 2): I am confounded, pudor suffunditur mihi; by anything, pudore afficior aliqua re: alicujus mentem animumque perturbare; in perturbationem conjicere; consternare percutere (not percellere, Vid: above). To destroy; to overthrow (plans, etc.), ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere (avoid ad nihil redigere in this sense): perimere [Vid: the examples]: disturbare (e.g., nuptias, legem): to confound all a person’s plans, disturbare alicui omnes rationes: unless some accident or business had confounded his plan, nisi aliqui casus aut occupatio ejus consilium peremisset: all his hopes and plans were confounded by death, omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia mors pervertit: thus was their whole undertaking confounded, ita frustra id inceptum iis fuit: to be confounded, irritum fieri; ad irritum cadere. recidere or venire: to confound one’s hopes, spem fallere, ludere, or destituere: to see one’s hopes confounded, spe excidere; a spe decidere; spe dejici spes ad irritum cadit or redigitur. [Vid. DESTROY, OVERTHROW]. To confound in argument, argumentis aliquem vincere.