Word Meanings - DUMFOUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dumfound; to confound.

Related words: (words related to DUMFOUNDER)

• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• DUMFOUNDER
  To dumfound; to confound.
• CONFOUNDER
  One who confounds.
• CONFOUND
  pour together; con- + fundere to pour. See Fuse to melt, and cf. 1. To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse. They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must
• CONFOUNDEDNESS
  The state of being confounded. Their witty descant of my confoundedness. Milton.
• UNCONFOUNDED
  Not confounded. Bp. Warburton.
• UNCONFOUND
  To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton.