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8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
verb mistake one thing for another
originFrom Middle English confounden (“destroy, ruin, perplex”), from Anglo-Norman cunfundre and Old French confondre, from Latin cōnfundō (“to mingle, mix together”). Related to found (“to melt (metals in a foundry)”) (but not to found (“to start”), nor to find) and to fusion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0