confound

1. V-T If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong. 使吃驚; 使困惑

He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis. 他通過冷靜處理人質(zhì)危機頓時使他的批評者們大吃一驚。