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Bewilder or astonish with complexity, novelty, or the like, as in The very magnitude of the Milky Way boggles the mind . The source of this usage is unclear, as the verb to boggle has several other seemingly unrelated meanings—to shy away, to hesitate, to bungle. [Second half of 1900s]

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