Verb (used with object) : The complicated directions confounded him. ,The revolution confounded the people. ,truth confounded with error. ,Confound it! ,to confound their arguments.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : That is a confounded lie.    From Dictionary.com. 

His eyes were still open, his expression confounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demon From The Dark] Reference

He paused with swift awkwardness, again confounded by his unwonted flow of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

Sir Menzies Campbell once again confounded his critics by displaying genuine fire and passion over Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

I will gladly cross swords with Baron Haer another day, when I, too, have ... what did you call the confounded things, Paul? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercenary] Reference

Apollonius had no suspicion how seriously the laughing "confounded" was meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

The colonel himself "confounded" the young scamp for his recklessness, and directed a report to be entered against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference

But one name confounded me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Weiner: R.I.P., Jade Goody] Reference

Some were confounded by the intractability of both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Jerusalem Is It, Anyway?] Reference

The source of the epidemic has confounded the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outbreak Of A Deadly Virus] Reference

Wolper both conformed to the stereotype and confounded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Wolper obituary] Reference

Then again, the Unabomer has always confounded expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flummoxing The Feds] Reference

His political shrewdness confounded even some of his supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference

It has already been a year when voters have confounded the experts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Liberal’s Lament] Reference

Once again the perversity of human nature has confounded our expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innocents Lost] Reference

It was this world of swaps and repos and CDOs that confounded regulators the last time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank regulators once bamboozled, now emboldened] Reference

Stocks and bonds have confounded most of last year's prophets by having an amazingly good 1995.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excited About The Dow? Get A Grip On Yourself.] Reference

Excerpts: On his administration's greatest accomplishment: We have confounded the prophets of doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Emotional Goodbye] Reference

Rube Goldberg would have been confounded by the brilliant simplicity of VW's new hardtop convertible, Eos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: VW Eos] Reference

What we do know is that the American economy has consistently confounded powerful reasons for it to falter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Oil at the Tipping Point?] Reference

But he confounded some critics by appointing both like-minded and more-liberal education experts to the panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokyo's Own White House] Reference

Schwarzenegger, however, confounded expectations by releasing the film for a 25th-anniversary airing last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Arnold] Reference

The rise of health-care nation has confounded America's political and intellectual leaders, of both left and right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-Care Nation] Reference

Two weeks ago he confounded his own aides by warning, twice, that Clinton would risk "world war" if he bombed Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's War Games] Reference

Not for the first time had the machinations of power-sharing confounded those who come here to make sense of it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's exit strategy from Iraq under threat once again] Reference

Latinos in particular are confounded by a system that does not reflect the complexity of race as they understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Drop Of Bloody History] Reference

The memory of a real event, visiting a mall, becomes confounded with the suggestion that you were once lost in one. 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Must Remember This] Reference

But one hit away from movie stardom, Jackman has confounded expectations by taking a leading role in a Broadway musical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays: Jackman's 'Oz' Fest] Reference

With a confounded look, she replied, "It was fulfilling because I knew when payday came I had money to feed my children.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's The Daddy? Grandma Didn't Ask.] Reference

Other programmers were equally confounded, using phrases like "new visual idiom" to describe the work -- and then passing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Wright Likes His 'Stupid Fun'] Reference

Schroder promptly backpedaled on the issue, as the Red-Green tensions that have confounded him from the start grew even worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Stumbling Start] Reference

What confounded Japanese most was how the guru in the fuchsia robe managed to recruit some of the nation's best and brightest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokyo Grabs The Doomsday Guru] Reference

Since taking charge of the world's fourth largest nation 15 months ago, Megawati has confounded many with her aloof leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dazed And Confused] Reference

Perhaps I ought to say here that this supposed state of discipline is by no means to be confounded with the Roman Catholic doctrine of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

"O. course you are; and what do you mean by that confounded rag up there?" cried the officer, pointing to the flag of the "B.O. W. C.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference