What is to destroy; to ruin; to waste. [Obs.] One man's lust these many lives confounds. Shak. How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour Shak. See Abash called?
confound — To destroy; to ruin; to waste. [Obs.] One man's lust these many lives confounds. Shak. How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour Shak. See Abash. (Webster's 1913.)
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