confounded (verb)

  • 11Tower of Babel — The Tower of Babel ( he. מגדל בבל Migdal Bavel ar. برج بابل Burj Babil ) is a structure featured in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, an enormous tower intended as the crowning achievement of the city of Babilu, the Akkadian name for Babylon.… …

    Wikipedia

  • 12confound — con|found [ kən faund ] verb transitive 1. ) to make someone feel surprised or confused, especially by not behaving in the way they expect: She confounded her critics by winning the race. 2. ) if you are confounded by something, you cannot… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 13BABEL, TOWER OF — BABEL, TOWER OF, the edifice whose building is portrayed in Genesis 11:1–9 as the direct cause of the diversity of languages in the world and the dispersion of mankind over all the earth. According to the preceding narrative, mankind after the… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 14Pahari languages — Pahari पहाड़ी, ਪਹਾੜੀ, پہاڑی Geographic distribution:  India (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim …

    Wikipedia

  • 15Old English subjunctive — The subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that are not stated as fact. It is still used frequently in such languages as French, German and Spanish, and also in …

    Wikipedia

  • 16disorder — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of order Nouns 1. disorder, derangement; irregularity; misrule, anarchy, anarchism; untidiness, disunion; disquiet, discord; confusion, confusedness; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, mess, mishmash …

    English dictionary for students

  • 17mixed-up — adjective perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment (Freq. 1) obviously bemused by his questions bewildered and confused a cloudy and confounded philosopher just a mixed up kid she felt lost on the first day …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 18Romance verbs — refers to the verbs of the Romance languages. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonetic, syntactic, and semantic changes. Most of the distinctions present in classical Latin continued to be made, but… …

    Wikipedia

  • 19blank — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French blanc colorless, white, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German blanch white; probably akin to Latin flagrare to burn more at black Date: 14th century 1. archaic colorless 2. a.… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 20puzzle — I. verb (puzzled; puzzling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1582 transitive verb 1. to offer or represent to (as a person) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve ; challenge mentally; also to exert (as oneself) over such …

    New Collegiate Dictionary