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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



... Layson stood dumbfounded for a moment. Then he would have said some further word, but the mountaineer, his arm pressed tight against that old game-sack, stalked down ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... Roger was quite genuinely dumbfounded at Nan's heterodox pronouncement on the relative ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... the Canadian withdrew, leaving me close to dumbfounded. I had imagined that if it came to this, I would have time to think about it, to talk it over. My stubborn companion hadn't granted me this courtesy. But after all, what would I have said to him? Ned Land was right a hundred ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... this perverted wretch speaking as if he had been cheated out of love was so remarkable, so pitiful, so monstrous, that for a moment Joe was dumbfounded. ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey
... a narrow squeak," declared Hank again. "I don't want any closer call. I couldn't move to save myself, I was so dumbfounded, and the carriage would have toppled down in another, second if you boys hadn't come along ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton


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