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dumbfounded

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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

the simple past tense and past participle of dumbfound.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dumbfounded¹

dumbfound ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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They asked me and they were dumbfounded, which was hilarious to me.

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“Tonight I was a little dumbfounded,” said Roberts.

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But in January last year, the 31-year-old said doctors were "dumbfounded" to find out he had heart failure after some blood tests - with many GPs not specialists in steroid use.

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The voice on the other end seemed dumbfounded.

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"I'm dumbfounded and speechless. I thought I was doing them a favour," he told the Dorset Echo.

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dumbfound dumbhead

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