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Nonplus   Listen
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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



... possible. M. de Levis' letter was a positive order to defend that post to the last extremity. De Bougainville, notwithstanding his genius, good sense and learning, with personal courage, and who lacked only taste for the study of the art of war to distinguish himself, was nevertheless put to a nonplus how to act from the contradictory orders he received. In this dilemma he shewed me the letters, asking at the same time my advice; and my answer was:—"That in two days famine must oblige us to surrender to the enemy at discretion. That the reinforcements of a thousand men at Montreal might be of ...
— The Campaign of 1760 in Canada - A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone • Chevalier Johnstone


Words linked to "Nonplus" :   mix up, baffle, vex, flummox, discombobulate, elude, stupefy, befuddle, fox, dumbfound, confound, puzzle, beat, perplex, pose, stump, riddle, mystify, bewilder


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