dumbfound
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 9
/ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/(UK)
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/ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/(UK) · /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/(UK) · /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/(US)
Definition of dumbfound
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
“A bunch of nice, middle-class women debated on how to "rescue" prostitutes from their "terrible" fate. By invitation, the conference was attended by a number of prostitutes, who dumbfounded those nice, bourgeois ladies by making it clear that they had no desire whatever to be "rescued"”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Blend of dumb + confound.
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