Usually means: Confuse greatly; amaze; astonish deeply.
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  1. dumbfound: Merriam-Webster
  2. dumbfound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dumbfound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dumbfound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dumbfound: Vocabulary.com
  6. dumbfound: Wordnik
  7. dumbfound: Wiktionary
  8. dumbfound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dumbfound: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dumbfound: Dictionary.com
  11. dumbfound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. dumbfound: Rhymezone
  13. dumbfound: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dumbfound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. dumbfound: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dumbfound: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

Similar:
flummox, bewilder, perplex, baffle, mystify, stupefy, stupify, amaze, nonplus, puzzle, more...

Opposite:
enlighten, clarify, elucidate, explain


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Similar:
flummox, bewilder, perplex, baffle, mystify, stupefy, stupify, amaze, nonplus, puzzle, more...

Opposite:
enlighten, clarify, elucidate, explain



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