confounded

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of confound

adj

1. confused, astonished
2. defeated, thwarted
   Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […] 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3
3. damned, accursed, bloody
   The confounded thing doesn't work.
   "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him." 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177