dumbfound
verb (used with object)
to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
had been dumbfounding
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past perfect progressiveof dumbfound.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The dear, good-meaning, no-thinking creature had been dumbfounding a company of us with a detail of inextricable difficulties in which the circumstances of an acquaintance of his were involved.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
