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Defeated criminal paid for 2 charges (10)

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I believe the answer is:

confounded

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'defeated' is the definition.
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'criminal paid for 2 charges' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'criminal' could be 'con' (abbreviation for 'convict') and 'con' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'founded' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for confounded that I've seen before include "Brought to confusion" , "Confused; astonished" , "ending of Te Deum?" , "Surprised" , "Perplexed - damned" .)

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