Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound. synonym: surprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See dumfound, dumfounder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb same as
dumfound .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
confuse andbewilder ; to leavespeechless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My guess is that harold has a low "dumbfound" threshold ...
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(I am not sure about this I think the only thing that might 'dumbfound' Australians is a rise in interest rates.
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(I am not sure about this I think the only thing that might 'dumbfound' Australians is a rise in interest rates.
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Unfortunately, most political systems dumbfound and dumb-down the masses and castrate the power of the people.
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Unfortunately, most political systems dumbfound and dumb-down the masses and castrate the power of the people.
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Despite the many heinous acts of extortion, revenge and intimidation that Keshari had seen in action over the years, it never ceased to dumbfound her the kinds of things that Ricky and those he employed could pull off and get away with.
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Despite the many heinous acts of extortion, revenge and intimidation that Keshari had seen in action over the years, it never ceased to dumbfound her the kinds of things that Ricky and those he employed could pull off and get away with.
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Despite the many heinous acts of extortion, revenge and intimidation that Keshari had seen in action over the years, it never ceased to dumbfound her the kinds of things that Ricky and those he employed could pull off and get away with.
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Colin went on to dumbfound the poor copper telling him that he (Colin) was on the relevant council committee and he knew about these things.
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