dumfound
- a variation of dumbfound.
Example Sentences
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Even within the present generation, the changes in the music world would dumfound a Toscanini.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Evan was quite a different lad now from the schoolboy who first came home with bank idioms to tickle his mother with and dumfound his sister.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
Me and Hector was kids together in the same ward, and when we started out to dumfound the world, he had a bankroll which his beloved father left him and I had nothin' but freckles.
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
The grief of the gayer sorts of stout people appears, sometimes, to dumfound even themselves.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth
If her idea had been utterly to dumfound the unsuspecting professor, she succeeded admirably.
From Prudence Says So by Hueston, Ethel