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Dumfounding

adjective
1.
Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder.  Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding.






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"Dumfounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... thus rebuking the silly Providence that had created him, and repairing Its mistake by annihilating him. This hurling Olympian gesture smote the street; the rails of the car-track sprang and quivered with the shock; it thundered, and, amid the dumfounding uproar of the wrath of a god, the Will of the Canaanite Jove wrote the words in ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

... noticeably in the manner of one who has snatched an hour of much needed sleep, took his place as if nothing in particular had happened. This, at first supposed to be a superhuman exhibition of sheer audacity, became but the more dumfounding when Miss Spence—looking up from her desk—greeted him with a pleasant little nod. Even after school, Penrod gave numerous maddened investigators no relief. All he would consent ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington



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