Example: "Obviously bemused by his questions"
To perplex or puzzle.
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
To make something worse.
Example: "Don't confound the situation by yelling."
To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
Example: "His actions confounded the skeptics."
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
To damn (a mild oath).
Example: "Confound the lady!"
To bring to ruination.
To stun, amaze
Confused, astonished
Defeated, thwarted
Damned, accursed, bloody
Example: "The confounded thing doesn't work."