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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dumfounder .
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Examples
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I was kind of dumfoundered at first; I forgot Aunt Mimy was the biggest beggar in Rockingham County.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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But I, because my sight was dimmed with much weeping, and I could not tell who was this woman of authority so commanding — I was dumfoundered, and, with my gaze fastened on the earth, continued silently to await what she might do next.
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‘How did you know that?’ muttered Sanin, dumfoundered.
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The deacon, when he knew him by his voice, was fairly dumfoundered.
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"Sit down and get your breath," she suggested chirkily, "then you won't feel quite so dumfoundered --"
Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke
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"And how did I appear to you?" asked the Count, presenting a splendid specimen in his astonished look of the state of mind called "the dumfoundered" by some learned philosophers, and by others "the flabbergasted."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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"Oh, hell!" cried the secretary, amazingly dumfoundered.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Their civilian populations, left behind in the towns, seemed dumfoundered at the appearance of the Union troops.
With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie
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The survivors struggle on blindly, dazed and dumfoundered, to the nearest cover.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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The enemy, utterly surprised and dumfoundered by this manoeuvre, were seen running to and fro in the greatest confusion: in the graphic words of Sir Bindon Blood's despatch,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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