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Meanings of dumfounded in English
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.
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Examples for "stupefied"
Examples for "stupefied"
1
The President of the Weldon Institute was stupefied; his companion was astonished.
2
I haven't seen so many people in so long I'm momentarily stupefied.
3
Tests have been taken to determine whether she was drugged or stupefied.
4
Thou art he that stupefied the Rishis dwelling in the Daruka forest.
5
It was not Morange who answered; he was stupefied by the blow.
1
For a long moment he simply stared, dumbfounded, at her retreating figure.
2
Kent sat in dumbfounded silence, regarding the red seal and the envelope.
3
The presence of any considerable proportion of personal friends generally dumbfounded me.
4
Super D and I were dumbfounded, afraid to believe it was true.
5
Zeus still seemed dumbfounded by the events of the last few months.
1
He was thunderstruck, and turning to the Vizier said: What sayest thou?
2
When news of the marriage came out to India I was thunderstruck.
3
He was thunderstruck at the idea of their taking Dandy from him.
4
Agias was thunderstruck; he had not counted on Drusus being absent temporarily.
5
The manager seemed thunderstruck by the intelligence, and gazed helplessly at Dupré.
1
The near mania that once flabbergasted even emerging market specialists is gone.
2
The rest of him was flabbergasted at the horror of the discovery.
3
Hilton smiled at the flabbergasted captain and went back to the lounge.
4
The three of us listening are flabbergasted and don't say a word.
5
Surprised-possiblyeven flabbergasted-byJack's totally unexpected anger, Smokey backed up a step.
1
Wang was dumbstruck; he spent 20 minutes trying to calm her down.
2
They stared, dumbstruck, as the fourteen of us came to a halt.
3
Beatrice frowns, momentarily dumbstruck, praise having succeeded where the invisible slipper failed.
4
A dumbstruck boy stares through the windshield, red-rimmed eyes and slack jaw.
5
At my stunned silence he laughs merrily, laughs in our dumbstruck faces.
Usage of dumfounded in English
1
The lecturer was altogether too dumfounded and terrified to utter a word.
2
Silent, staring, the congregation stood dumfounded, waiting to see what would happen.
3
But the landlord was too dumfounded even to speak for a minute.
4
When Bivens received this order to appear at court he was dumfounded.
5
And Cynthia's son mopped his thick hair and looked as suddenly dumfounded.
6
For a moment that worthy stood dumfounded, bewildered, utterly at a loss.
7
To say that he was amazed, dumfounded, scarcely expressed his intense surprise.
8
The watcher was the most dumfounded holy man in all India.
9
The poor creature was dumfounded; she had not foreseen the difficulty.
10
But I was simply dumfounded by a final development in the same line.
11
Suddenly he stepped back dumfounded, holding the latch in his hand.
12
She glanced at the still dumfounded Jim in an instinctive appeal.
13
The young man was completely dumfounded by the sight of her.
14
Hale was dumfounded, but he knew the boy spoke the truth.
15
Ruth and Spurlock separated, the one embarrassed, the other utterly dumfounded.
16
At this juncture Victorin and Lisbeth arrived, and stood dumfounded at the scene.
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