Confounded vs Confuse - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between confounded and confuse

is that confounded is (confound) while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.

is confused; thwarted.

(head)

(confound)

(en adjective)

Confused; thwarted.

* confoundedly

(confus)

To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.

(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.

To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.

To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

To mistake one thing for another.

* flummox * mistake * See also