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
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
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 J. P. Buschlen
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
If her idea had been utterly to dumfound the unsuspecting professor, she succeeded admirably.
From Prudence Says So by Ethel Hueston
