boggle
verb (used with object)
to overwhelm or bewilder, as with magnitude, complexity, or strangeness.
have boggled
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present perfectof boggle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“It would have boggled the mids of the Romans,” Johnson said.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2012
My short-trousered, ship-watching self would have boggled at the impossibility.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2010
It would have boggled the minds of the Romans.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
All these so-called new fusion dishes speak to an inclusively global attitude that might have boggled the minds of the movement's earliest fans.
From Los Angeles Times
I am above concealing my sentiments, though I have boggled at uttering them.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
