0 to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation:
The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
1 to confuse someone by being difficult to explain or deal with:
She likes to confound others’ expectations about her.
To control for confounding a multivariate analysis was performed by the use of logistic regression.
This confounds a static view of design: evolution in the language of design is the inevitable result of creative expression.
Although the demographic transformation is the most conspicuous phenomenon, other important socio-demographic changes confound the problems.
However, despite detailed assessment, older people and their multiple illnesses are destined to continue to display a remarkable capacity to confound expectations and conformity.
Furthermore, comparison of participants and the eligible population show that sample attrition is an unlikely source of confounding in this investigation.
Patients were also required to have at least 3 months remaining on the waiting list for therapy so that outcomes were not confounded.
A final potential confounding factor in the present study was overall severity of illness in manic versus depressed patients.
Samples from animals 5 months old were not used, to avoid confounding with maternal antibodies.
