confound
/kәn'faund/
📖 中文释义
- vt. 使混淆, 使狼狈, 挫败
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
💬 双语例句
But the earthquake that Russia triggered in Ukraine has also exposed dangerous fault lines across Europe. Putin has found in Ukraine the perfect tool with which to confound and divide the West.
But, above all, he needs to cooperate with Congress, just as Reagan and Clinton did. If he does that, he could turn his presidency around, confound his critics, and leave a positive legacy.
Perhaps an alliance between Conservatives and Liberals – the two parties ostensibly farthest apart in their views – confounded everyone out of their certainties. This in itself may be no bad thing.
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🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- v mistake one thing for another