Definition of "confounds" [confounds]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confound. (verb)
• Plural form of confound. (noun)

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• "I wonder if coming out a different one than you went in confounds things."
• "But then some songs such as Louie Louie, which is in English, confounds most native English speakers as well."
• "Nonetheless, the idea confounds common wisdom both of the right, which assigns Iran a prominent place in the world's "axis of evil", and the left, which believes that the U.S. and Israel are already planning to attack, if not actually invade, Iran."