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View synonyms for dumbfounded

dumbfounded

or dum·found·ed

[ duhm-foun-did, duhm-foun- ]

adjective

  1. speechless with amazement; astonished or showing astonishment:

    I smiled at the dumbfounded look on their faces as their eyes widened and their mouths fell slack.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of dumbfound ( def ).

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Example Sentences

On Thursday, a woman who answered the phone there was dumbfounded as to why someone would be asking about the case.

But I was dumbfounded to get hit up by a federal agency with an annual budget of $750 million.

I was devastated the first time I was deleted, and dumbfounded each time thereafter.

Tirico stood there dumbfounded, and the woman turned and left the soiree.

In the final moments, however, LeBron hits a game-winning three-pointer, and Cooke can only stare dumbfounded.

The door was open, and the woman and the child stood dumbfounded and overwhelmed in a scene of incredible desolation.

I think even Dr. Hudson was dumbfounded; we had not expected unconditional surrender.

The crafty captain sat for a moment quite dumbfounded; but he could bear it no longer.

For a moment I was as dumbfounded as the bridegroom who discovers a plait of hair on his brides dressing table.

The countess looked up at her husband, quite dumbfounded, and he seemed rather distressed himself.

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