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What (who) is dumbfound - definition


dumbfound      
(dumbfounds, dumbfounding, dumbfounded)
If someone or something dumbfounds you, they surprise you very much.
This suggestion dumbfounded Joe.
= astonish
VERB: V n
dumbfound      
(also dumfound)
¦ verb astonish greatly.
Origin
C17: blend of dumb and confound.
dumbfounded         
adj.
1) completely dumbfounded
2) dumbfounded at, by (dumbfounded at the news)
3) dumbfounded to + inf. (he was dumbfounded to learn that his wife had left him)
Examples of use of dumbfound
1. Safya, who has been serving over the past nine years as a UN goodwill ambassador, said she sat dumbfound and shocked by the way Israeli forces struck Lebanese civilians.