compose vs confound

compose

verb
  • To make something by merging parts. 

  • To comprise. 

  • To calm; to free from agitation. 

  • To make up the whole; to constitute. 

  • To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement. 

  • To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture. 

  • To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work. 

  • To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition. 

confound

verb
  • To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable. 

  • To stun or amaze. 

  • To make something worse. 

  • To cause to be ashamed; to abash. 

  • To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart. 

  • To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong. 

  • To perplex or puzzle. 

noun
  • A confounding variable. 

How often have the words compose and confound occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )