Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet CONFOUND

Definition av CONFOUND

1. förvirra, förbrylla

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• Still, though, it do confound how such a monumental talent can mire himself in such twaddle, fine as some of it may be.
• To that effect, lack of trust in government to make decisions (including life-and-death decisions) competently or for the best motives may confound the issue; already deeply distrustful of government, they say, it should not be trusted to be an arbiter of life and death without error.
• Paolo Giovio was the first historian to confound Barletius with another contemporary Marinus Scodrensis, Marino Becichemi (1468-1526), professor of rhetorics and author of commentaries on classic literature.
• Brooks tiptoes into territory Luis Buñuel would have frolicked in, but he does so without the master surrealist’s desire to outrage and confound his viewers.
• This reiterates an early theme from his research in the 1970s, in which Feduccia had repeatedly emphasized the importance of homoplasy in evolution, and its ability to confound the interpretation of phylogeny.
• It is often difficult to determine what is in these products without reagent testing because masking agents, such as tocopherol (or vitamin E acetate that causes vaping-associated pulmonary injury), eugenol, and fatty acids, are added to confound identification.
• Hospitality industry marketing has a very heavy seasonal pattern and most marketing-mix models will tend to confound marketing effectiveness with seasonality, thus overestimating or underestimating marketing ROI.
• This can easily confound molecular clock algorithms to the point where hard polytomies become unrecognizable as such.
• Racial taxonomies which include cranial capacity, head shape, or any other trait influenced by climate confound ecotypic and phyletic causes.
• Sensing a powerful force pursuing her, Raederle uses her abilities to confound it, thinking she is protecting Morgon; but discovers that the force she thought was Ghisteslwchlohm is Morgon himself, who had stolen much of Ghisteslwchlohm's power during his long captivity, while the helpless man he pursued was Deth, who had betrayed him.
• Some of these traditions further confound them with Agraulos, Herse, and Pandrosus, or with the Hyades.
• Inept Nazi agents, counterspies, racketeers and multiple fakes of the masterpiece soon confound all attempts.
• Shooting guns from stable benchrests may also provide a stable platform for sighting in less specialized firearms, including even handguns, shotguns and muzzleloaders, as it eliminates most of the human errors that can confound the sighting-in process.
• Loops, which can confound naive maze solvers, may be introduced by adding random edges to the result during the course of the algorithm.
• However, these studies used a variety of different measures for recidivism (such as re-arrest, reconviction, or re-imprisonment) which tends to confound the results.
• Allmovie, though having rated Surf II one star out of five, noted that the film is "never dull" and "deranged enough to be memorable", giving praise to the performances of the ensemble cast and summarizing, "Surf IIs unbalanced mix of amateurishness and gonzo humor will confound most viewers, but fans of B-movie weirdness will find more than enough memorable moments to keep themselves entertained".
• In addition to the factors described above, there are a host of other properties that can confound predictions of altitudinal zonations.
• " In Book 3, Irenaeus continues his defense of the unity of the church around the bishop, writing, "By pointing out the apostolic tradition and faith announced to mankind, which has been brought down to our time by successions of bishops, in the greatest, most ancient, and well known church, founded and established by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, at Rome, we can confound all who in any other way … gather more than they ought.
• He was happy that it took his writing in a new direction and would confound the attempts of the critics to pigeonhole him, and, with a slightly masochistic joy he looked forward to their "rage and contempt".
• Gongsun plays the role of manipulating the weather to confound their pursuers, who lose their way in the lake and are mown down by his group.

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