Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.
- adjective tending to contradict (a hypothesis).
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- verb Present participle of
confound .
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- adjective that confounds or contradicts or confuses
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Examples
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Most confounding is the under-dramatization of Hades.
G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM G. Roger Denson 2010
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Most confounding is the under-dramatization of Hades.
G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM G. Roger Denson 2010
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
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Most confounding is the under-dramatization of Hades.
G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM G. Roger Denson 2010
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
Criminal Law 2009
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
Supreme Court 2009
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
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Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum.
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