confound (sense ‘destroy, ruin’ is the most freq.)
1.
to waste, consume, spend
1H4 I. iii. 100
“He did the best part of
an hour,”
H5 III. i. 13
“As doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his c-ed
base,”
Cor. I. vi. 17, Ant. I. i. 45, I. iv. 28, Per. V. ii. 14 [279], Sonn. viii. 7.
2.
to mingle
indistinguishably Err. I. ii.
38, R2 IV. i. 141.
