Crossword clues for dumbfound
dumbfound
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dumfound \Dum"found`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumfounded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Dumfounding.]
To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also
dumbfound.]
--Spectator.
dumbfound \dumbfound\ v. same as dumfound.
Syn: confuse, perplex, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, puzzle, mystify, baffle, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, stupify, nonplus, gravel, amaze, trounce, confound, be confusing to, make confused.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless. vb. To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
WordNet
Usage examples of "dumbfound".
The utter implausibility of this woman and her apish companion suddenly appearing on the doomed construction site left the young g-man dumbfounded.
And as if that were not startlement enough, she watched, dumbfounded, as he knelt, slowlyslowly eased the arrow off the string of his bowand just as slowly laid them to one side.
I was dumbfounded at the extraordinary reply, while the lady calmly returned to her newspaper, and did not speak another word till the arrival of Lady Betty.
The crowd erupted into applause at the same time, which brought Lazar up, alert and then dumbfounded as he too stared at the stage.
All my life had I heard rumours of a white race that existed in the highlands of this vast continent, and longed to put them to the proof, and now here I saw it with my own eyes, and was dumbfounded.
Cirocco was dumbfounded to see Lullaby hunched over the radar set, shouting orders.
Marty Lunk, dumbfounded, had placed himself an easy target for The Shadow.
He glanced at Peery, waving his arms and running his words together as he fired them, machine-gun style, at the dumbfounded oiler.
His suggestion sounded so irresponsible that Pilar was dumbfounded, doubting that he was serious and wondering if he was.
Seriema looked on, dumbfounded, the Suffragan stretched her arms above her head, then swung them back and forth and rubbed them hard to get the circulation going again.
When he heard this, Don Quixote was dumbfounded, because at that instant he remembered an infinite number of adventures similar to this one, with windows, jalousies, gardens, music, amorous compliments, and swoons, which he had read in his delusive books of chivalry.
At his dumbfounded look, Rain explained just what a vasectomy entailed.
All this had happened with such swiftness that I had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light.
Van Hoek lay flat on the oar-deck, poked his spyglass out through an oar-lock, and gazed upon the brig with the dumbfounded intensity of a stalking cat.
Suddenly there were a half-dozen Kerns standing in the courtyard, each identical to the other, all looking equally dumbfounded.