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dumfounded
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- She stared at him, dumfounded.†
dumfounded = very surprised -- often too surprised to know what to say or dounconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfounded.
- And Mr. Blakeslee said maybe Will and the boys should go campin' for a few days first. Mama looked dumfounded.
*dumfounded = bewildered (confused and surprised)unconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfounded.
- We couldn't of been more dumfounded.†
dumfounded = very surprised -- often too surprised to know what to say or dounconventional spelling: Today this is more commonly spelled dumbfounded.
- They were too dumfounded to wave back, I reckon, or maybe didn't recognize anybody but me, on account of the linen coats and Mama's veil and Papa's goggles.†
- It hung by a string from the ceiling just above where the robbers were sitting on the floor but, being dazed and dumfounded, they looked all around and didn't see what he was talking about.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(dumfounded) very surprised - often too surprised to know what to say or do
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)