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Definition: DUMFOUND |
DUMFOUNDTransitive verb1. To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. |
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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: DUMFOUND |
| English words defined with "DUMFOUND": Dumfounder. (references) |
| 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 hayret ettirmek (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, dumbfound, flabbergast, gravel, mystify, surprise, wow). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DUMFOUND": dumfounded, dumfounding, dumfounds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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