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
The grief of the gayer sorts of stout people appears, sometimes, to dumfound even themselves.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
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
After which remark, uttered in a way to dumfound Simon, Cecile rose; the others made way for her and she went to her mother, who was just finishing her rubber of whist.
From The Deputy of Arcis by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
