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    "What's your Quidditch team?" Ron asked. "Er — I don't know any," Harry confessed. "What!" Ron looked dumbfounded. "Oh, you wait, it's the best game in the world —" And he was off, explaining all about...  (source)
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    Jonas closed his eyes again. He took a deep breath and sought the sled and the hill and the snow in his consciousness. There they were, with no effort. He was again sitting in that whirling world of snowflakes, atop the hill. Jonas grinned with delight, and blew his own steamy breath into view. Then, as he had been instructed, he looked down. ... He saw his legs, and moved them aside for a glimpse of the sled beneath. Dumbfounded, he stared at it.  (source)
    Dumbfounded = very surprised -- often too surprised to know what to say or do
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    George and Harold were dumbfounded.  (source)
    dumbfounded = so surprised that they couldn't immediately think of what to say
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    The children … I realize I shouldn't call them children, they're grown, went in search of Tashi; an hour later they returned dumbfounded.  (source)
    dumbfounded = bewildered (confused or surprised)
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    "No…" Two-Bit said, dumfounded. "No, Ponyboy, that ain't right… you got it wrong…"  (source)
    dumfounded = very surprised
    unconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfounded.
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    It was a dumfounding tableau.†  (source)
    dumfounding = very surprising -- often too surprising that you don't know what to say or do
    unconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfounding.
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    What you say dumbfounds me, staggers imagination!†  (source)
    dumbfounds = surprises -- often so much that one doesn't know what to say or do
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    For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.†  (source)
    dumfound = surprise -- often so much so that one doesn't know what to say or do
    unconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfound.
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    Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.†  (source)
    dumbfounding = very surprising -- often too surprising that you don't know what to say or do
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    For as the stunned verbeeg stared dumbfoundedly at its friend's brains splattered all over its club, the drow's curved blade sliced under its rib cage, tearing through lungs and finding its mark in the monster's heart.†  (source)
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    I stole a glance at him, and found him staring at me with an expression of complete dumbfoundedness.†  (source)
    dumbfoundedness = the state of being too surprised to know what to say or do
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    And just look at my pipes! They suck up the chocolate and carry it away to all the other rooms in the factory where it is needed! Thousands of gallons an hour, my dear children! ...' The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. ... They were dumbfounded.  (source)
    dumbfounded = very surprised -- often too surprised to know what to say or do
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    And Mr. Blakeslee said maybe Will and the boys should go campin' for a few days first. Mama looked dumfounded.  (source)
    dumfounded = bewildered (confused and surprised)
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