[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That confounds; destroying, confusing, perplexing, amazing, etc.: see the verb.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, V. lvi. The touch of a confounding flame.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 310. In this confounding age, wherein so much was demolished and aliened.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 107. A confounding shame.
1861. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 156. The noise was so utterly confounding.
