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Definition of Dumbfounds
1. dumbfound [v] - See also: dumbfound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumbfounds
Literary usage of Dumbfounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1911)
"Such easy-going dumbfounds us: we take that impudence for strength. That is the
way the English journalists ape the worst insolence of their transatlantic ..."
2. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1872)
"Such imperial impudence dumbfounds us. How have they acquired so genuine and so
robust a skepticism ? Are they not thus secure and confident because they ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"... interrupts more effectually than any othe letter the progress of articulation ;
it is formed by closing th( lips: it instantly dumbfounds the utterer, ..."
4. Essentials of Americanization by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1920)
"... which bewilders and dumbfounds him. The immigrant is chagrined by American
thoughtlessness. Everybody seems to be going about his own business to be ..."
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