Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
dumbfounding .
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- verb Present participle of
dumfound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bewildering or striking dumb with wonder
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Examples
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In fact this remark was a dumfounding non sequitur which clearly puzzled Boy David, heroically maintaining his sang froid.
Archive 2007-07-08 Newmania 2007
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In fact this remark was a dumfounding non sequitur which clearly puzzled Boy David, heroically maintaining his sang froid.
Mrs. Draper Serves a Mugging For Breakfast Newmania 2007
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Of course, the mere idea that you could milk a book out of this guy's life experiences is dumfounding.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Dreams of My Fellatio 2008
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Coming down from a marvellous leap with the delaying, dumfounding ease
Tart's Poetry Corner 2007
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Coming down from a marvellous leap with the delaying, dumfounding ease
Tart's Poetry Corner 2007
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This season has provided no shortage of surprises, dumfounding, jaw-dropping surprises.
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He had kept his eyes from looking full at her until then, and as he saw her, thus close at hand, and coming nearer, a regret that was dumfounding took possession of him.
Chapter 27 1918
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He had kept his eyes from looking full at her until then, and as he saw her, thus close at hand, and coming nearer, a regret that was dumfounding took possession of him.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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For the moment, defiance from such a source was dumfounding.
Penrod 1914
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This, at first supposed to be a superhuman exhibition of sheer audacity, be came but themore dumfounding when Miss Spence -- looking up from her desk -- greeted him with a pleasant little nod.
Penrod 1914
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