What is the meaning of confounded?

verb

• Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
  • usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
  • synonyms: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
• Mistake one thing for another.
  • usage: "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
  • synonyms: confuse, confound

adjective

• Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.
  • usage: "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
  • synonyms: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea