1. causing confusion or bewilderment; puzzling

1. present participle of confound: to cause confusion or surprise; to mix up or fail to distinguish between things

Examples

• The magician’s confounding tricks left the audience speechless.
• Her confounding behavior made it impossible to predict what she would do next.
• The confounding results of the experiment surprised all the researchers.
• He kept confounding the two similar-looking students in his class.
• The detective was confounding the evidence from different crime scenes.
• The confounding maze had visitors walking in circles for hours.