Confounded Edit Meaning

1.

1) Confused, frustrated, baffled.

2) Accursed, frustrating, annoying. Synonymous with blasted.

1) The Mystery of the Malfunctioning Computer confounded me for seven years, but Detective McEaghen solved the case with relative ease.

2) How am I supposed to log on to this confounded thing?

2.

Used as an intensifier, and placed like an adjective. It literally means "confused" or "foiled". As slang, it is equivalent to "danged" or "darned". Used mostly in the southern U.S. and in Scotland.

Dagnabbit, where in the Sam Hilldid you get that frickin' piece of crud? Get the confounded thing out of here!

See dadgum, doggone, flipping, frigging, whodathunkit, shucks, shoot