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Dumbfounding   /dˈəmfaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
Dumbfounding

adjective
1.
Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder.  Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding.


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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"Dumbfounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... breathe—shattered by the narrowness of her escape, and appalled by this new situation that had risen around her—too appalled even to consider what might be the situation's natural developments. Soon amid the wild churning of various emotions, anger began to rise, and outraged pride. Such cool, dumbfounding impudence! ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... to their vessels and waited. But then, just as night was closing in, the weather lifted enough to reveal Drake's astonishing position. Immediately pinnaces went scurrying to Sidonia for orders. But he had none to give. At one in the morning he learnt some more dumbfounding news: that the English had nearly caught him at Corunna, that Drake and Howard had joined forces, and that both ...
— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood


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