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Dumbfounded   /dˈəmfaʊndɪd/   Listen
Dumbfounded

adjective
1.
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.  Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck.  "The flabbergasted aldermen were speechless" , "Was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"



Dumbfound

verb
1.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"






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"Dumbfounded" Quotes from Famous Books



... even he was nonplussed to find their errand so obviously known in part. As for Barry, simple, straight sailor that he was, he was dumbfounded. ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... thoughtfully and admiringly wandering over every characteristic detail of the charming apartment, here raised them to its handsome mistress, with an apologetic air and a "No" of such unaffected and complete abstraction, that she was again dumbfounded. Certainly, it could not be Mary in ...
— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte

... wink and lost breath. "Ah—yes—that's all," he assented uneasily. And as he spoke another wink dumbfounded him. "Why?" he asked, with a distinct loss of assurance. "Don't ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance

... of energy, and thrust him to one side, and striding out upon the field of combat, proceeded to deliver herself of her pent-up sentiments. It was a discourse in the grandest style of tragedy, and Mary Flanagan was quite dumbfounded—apparently this was a "lady" after all! So the Flanagan family packed its belongings and departed in a chastened frame of mind; and Corydon turned to her spouse, her eyes still flashing, and remarked, "If only I had talked to her ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

... make the handcuffs fast to a long chain which passed between each pair of slaves, and would start his procession southward."[1] It is not strange that several of the unfortunate people committed suicide. One distracted mother, about to be separated from her loved ones, dumbfounded the nation by hurling herself from the window of a prison in the capital on the Sabbath day and dying in ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley


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