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Nonplus  v. t.  (past & past part. nonplused or nonplussed; pres. part. nonplusing or nonplussing)  To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. "He has been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove."






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"Nonplus" Quotes from Famous Books



... invertebrate animal. Me, Mister, a queer creature. Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at. Medium, ardentispirituale. Mediums, spiritual, dreadful liars. Memminger, old. Mentor, letters of, dreary. Mephistopheles at a nonplus. Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth. Mexican polka. Mexicans, charged with various breaches of etiquette, kind feelings beaten into them. Mexico, no glory in overcoming. Middleton, Thomas, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



Words linked to "Nonplus" :   throw, discombobulate, vex, confuse, confound, flummox, fuddle, baffle, mix up, elude, bedevil, escape, dumbfound, gravel, beat



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