dumbfound
verb (used with object)
to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
dumfound
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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
For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Genius can cross the Alps, can conquer Europe, can dumfound the world.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Elbert expected to dumfound the world with what he knew, and Joey did dumfound it with what he didn't.
From Alex the Great by Arthur William Brown
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 Arthur William Brown
