DUMFOUND

  

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DUMFOUND

Definition: DUMFOUND

DUMFOUND

Transitive verb

1. To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DUMFOUND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Note: Dumfound \Dum"found`\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dumfounded; present participle verb or noun Dumfounding.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DUMFOUND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disappointment

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Wonder

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DUMFOUND

English words defined with "DUMFOUND": Dumfounder. (references)

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Modern Translation: DUMFOUND

Language Translations for "DUMFOUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

متحیرکردن (Admire, Astonish, Dumbfound), لال کردن (Dumbfound), بلاجواب گذاشتن (Dumbfound). (various references)

   

German

  

verblüffen (amaze, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bewilder, confound, dazzle, flabbergasted, flummox, Fox, nonplus, perplex, stump, stun, stupefy, to amaze, to baffle, to dumbfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to puzzle, to stump, to stupefy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elnémít (dumbfound, to dumbfound, to dumfound, to gag, to mute, to muzzle, to put down, to silence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umfoundday

   

Turkish

  

hayret ettirmek (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, dumbfound, flabbergast, gravel, mystify, surprise, wow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DUMFOUND

Derivations

Words beginning with "DUMFOUND": dumfounded, dumfounding, dumfounds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DUMFOUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-f-m-n-o-u-u"

-3 letters: fondu, found, mound.

-4 letters: doum, fond, fund, muon, undo.

-5 letters: dom, don, dud, dun, duo, fon, fou, fud, fun, mod, mon, mud, mun, nod, nom, odd, oud, udo.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-f-m-n-o-u-u"
 

+1 letter: dumbfound, dumfounds.

 

+2 letters: dumbfounds, dumfounded.

 

+3 letters: dumbfounded, dumbfounder, dumfounding.

 

+4 letters: dumbfounders, dumbfounding.

 

+5 letters: dumbfoundered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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