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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dumbfound .
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Examples
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Sarah Palin's appeal to politically-alienated anti-government conservatives in the Lower 48 dumbfounds those of us who witnessed her career in Alaska.
Matt Zencey: It's a Mystery Why the Tea Party Loves Sarah Palin Matt Zencey 2011
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How ANYONE, ANYONE can grumble about Kirk when THIS is the alternative dumbfounds me.
The NRSC wastes *no* time on properly greeting Giannoulias. | RedState 2010
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What dumbfounds me more is that the link is broken, even when I go to the home page and click the link on there.
These trick-or-treaters are toddling off to hell « Dating Jesus 2009
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Therefore it dumbfounds me to discover that The Book of Eleanor is currently climbing the bestseller lists in Los Angeles.
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Sarah Palin's appeal to politically-alienated anti-government conservatives in the Lower 48 dumbfounds those of us who witnessed her career in Alaska.
Matt Zencey: It's a Mystery Why the Tea Party Loves Sarah Palin Matt Zencey 2011
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The thing that dumbfounds me, is that we were always playing hockey on ponds,unsupervised by adults.
Canada, the civilized Peter Rozovsky 2010
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If a PC dumbfounds you by thinking his way out of certain death or manipulating a situation the way a pianist manipulates a keyboard, another die for the pool is a concrete way to acknowledge the feat.
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The thing that dumbfounds me, is that we were always playing hockey on ponds,unsupervised by adults.
Canada, the civilized Peter Rozovsky 2010
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What dumbfounds me about the McCain campaign -- and really the Republican Party more generally -- is how much more competitive they would have been if they stuck with the "2000 John McCain image," which I think was also fabricated but at least had real appeal to people.
McCain Adviser Admits That Campaign Doesn't Want To Talk About Economic Crisis 2009
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The fact that it happens, for all of them, in a nonlinear fashion, sometimes months apart, but it still manages to look continuous to us in the audience just dumbfounds me.
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