To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.

To throw into disorder. Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11:7.

To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another. A fluid body and a wetting liquor, because they agree in many things, are wont to be confounded. Men may confound ideas with words.

To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words. Men may confound each other by unintelligible terms or wrong application of words.

To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed. Be thou confounded and bear thy shame. Ezekiel 16:52. Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus.Acts 9:22,

To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupefy with amazement. So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood a while as mute confounded what to say. The multitude came together and were confounded. Acts 2:6.

To destroy; to overthrow. So deep a malice to confound the race of mankind in one root.