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Nonplus

verb
(past & past part. nonplused or nonplussed; pres. part. nonplusing or nonplussing)
1.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, 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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"Nonplus" Quotes from Famous Books



... with such parsons, one may doubt If 'tisn't money well laid out;— Of all, in short, and each degree Of that once happy Hierarchy, Which used to roll in wealth so pleasantly; But now, alas! is doomed to see Its surplus brought to nonplus presently! ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al



Words linked to "Nonplus" :   bedevil, elude, discombobulate, befuddle, fox, stump, mix up, throw, riddle, escape, confuse, fuddle, confound



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