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variants also dumfounded

dumbfounded

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verb

variants also dumfounded
past tense of dumbfound

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumbfounded
Adjective
  • Meade, who has no family history of breast cancer, was shocked.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Reyes broke into the apartment through the fire escape, shocked relatives told The News.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Wall Street Journal board agreed with Powell’s assessment but wasn’t surprised Trump lashed out against him.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The defensive line crop of talent in this draft is so deep don’t be surprised if all 32 teams select one at some point in the three days of this draft.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • For the coveted shoot, the Olympic athlete stunned in a variety of looks.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • However, most were stunned at Dawn's story.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Jaeger was amazed by the online reaction to Ola's story, as many social-media users thanked the couple for saving her.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Her doctors, Flowers says, are amazed at how she’s been able to keep her condition from progressing.
    Nicole Pajer, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The following day, at a Dunkin’ beneath the Capitol complex, Rhodes held forth to astonished journalists about the righteousness of the assault.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The nearly two-and-a-half-minute clip shows many of the original film's iconic scenes, including Lilo's astonished discovery of the mysterious blue alien Stitch.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the two years since Tommy Elliott was killed in a mass shooting, Maryanne Elliott’s grief has, in turns, left her aghast and overwhelmed, bewildered and incapacitated, grateful and wanting to die.
    Kristina Goetz, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In the now-viral video, the tuxedo cat crawls out from under the bed, wide-eyed and bewildered.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Eugene Levy so much, his famous eyebrows get raised right off his head and go on a grand tour — ending up as a mustache on a baby, kings to awed caterpillars and even alighting on daughter Sarah’s hand before returning to his face.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Sleek sea otters dive and twirl in a tank before awed visitors.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Dumbfounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbfounded. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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