confound
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“Damn and blast it! Confound it! Wake up!” the conductor and composer Otto Nicolai wrote in his impassioned draft of the Vienna Philharmonic’s foundation charter, left, in the spring of 1842.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017
Confound that difficulty with the terror that comes with striking out on your own, and you’re in for a bumpy ride.
From Forbes • Jan. 26, 2015
Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix, God save the King!
From Time Magazine Archive
His rhetoric runs to the plush and fustian and is punctuated with such anachronistic expletives as "By Heaven!" and "Confound it!" and even "Horsefeathers!"
From Time Magazine Archive
He added, "Confound the woman's impudence!" in a tone still more angry, which took off a little of the edge of his previous speech; and Mrs. Clinton took Joan's hand in hers and pressed it.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
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100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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