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“confounded” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

confounded
confusus (put into disorder, and then = perplexed): turbatus: conturbatus: perturbatus (put into disorder; conturbatus and perturbatus also = perplexed). (the words are found in this connexion and order.) conturbatus et confusus: commotus: permotus (violently moved or agitated): percussus (shaken; not perculsus, which means deeply afflicted or dejected; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Tib., 11; Nep., Dion, 5, 2): perterritus (violently terrified): (the words are found in this connexion and order.) obstupefactus ac perterritus: afflictus (deprived of all courage and energy): attonitus (as if struck by a thunder-bolt). (the words are found in this connexion and order.) confusus et attonitus: spe dejectus (having one’s hopes utterly destroyed): fulminatus (as if struck by lightning, Petronius, 80, 7): exanimatus (entirely beyond one’s self, annihilated): to become confounded, obstupescere, and the passives of the verbs in To CONFOUND: to be confounded, stupere; alicujus animum stupor tenet: to be very much confounded about anything, aliqua re exanimatum esse: he was confounded to such a degree as not to be able to utter a single word, torpebat vox spiritusque (Liv., 2, 25): A confounded rascal, homo ex omni parte detestabilis: You confounded rascal, O hominem impurum! monstrum hominis!
Abashed, pudore suffusus.

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What is the Latin word for confounded?
The usual Latin words for “confounded” are cōnfundō, turbō, conturbō; also perturbō, commoveō, permoveō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.