Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Blowing the conch, you simply make Confusion worse confounded.

Modifies a noun

• thing: We don't know what's in the confounded thing, you know!

• nuisance: You just go on committing offenses that are a confounded nuisance to everyone around you.

• expectation: As limitations confounded expectations, ES moved into a more realistic role, that of decision support.

• conservatory: Haven't we come to the end of this confounded conservatory yet?

• fool: The worst of the story is, said he, that I show myself up as such a confounded fool.

Used with adjective complement

• become: When several horsemen appear in a semicircle, it becomes confounded, and does not know which way to escape.

• get: And any other viewpoint just gets so confounded that you can't find your way through here without some magic.