boggle
verb (used with object)
to overwhelm or bewilder, as with magnitude, complexity, or strangeness.
had boggled
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past perfectof boggle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When she had gone on to explain, The Guesser's mind had boggled at her audacity—at first.
From But, I Don't Think by Randall Garrett
Even the blush he had boggled at came to his cheeks punctually whenever his sheep's-eyes met Fanny's.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
Mrs. Norton, now that she had boggled, by surprise, into the acknowledgment that she knew anything whatever about the matter, felt herself in a problematical position.
From The Wrong Woman by Charles D. Stewart
Frizzi brought the Christ Triumphant into its present state, patching up what "the lither lad" from Pistoja had boggled.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
