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dumbfound

UK/ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd//ˈdʌm.faʊnd/

dumbfound verb: to confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

Verb

dumbfound (third-person singular simple present dumbfounds, present participle dumbfounding, simple past and past participle dumbfounded)

  1. (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"1989 December 3, Franklin Kameny, “Prostitution: Good, Right, And Desirable”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 5

dumbfound meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

dumbfound in Tamil

வியப்பில் பேச்சிழந்து நிற்றல்

dumbfound in Bengali

বিভ্রান্ত ও হতবাক করা, নির্বাক করে দেওয়া

dumbfound in Malayalam

amaze, astonish, astound
ആശ്ചര്യഭരിതമാക്കുക, വിസ്മയിപ്പിക്കുക, വലുതായി ആശ്ചര്യപ്പെടുത്തുക, അത്ഭുതപാരവശ്യത്തിലാക്കുക, വിസ്മയസ്തംബ്ധമാക്കുക, അമ്പരപ്പിക്കുക

dumbfound in Kannada

ಬಾಯಿಕಟ್ಟು, ಬೆರಗಾಗು, ಸೊಲ್ಲಡಗು

Synonyms of dumbfound

Forms of dumbfound

third-person singular presentdumbfounds
present participledumbfounding
past participledumbfounded
pastdumbfounded
alternative formdumfound

Origin of dumbfound

Blend of dumb + confound.

Words formed from dumbfound

Questions about dumbfound

What does dumbfound mean?
Dumbfound means to confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
What is dumbfound in Tamil?
Dumbfound in Tamil is வியப்பில் பேச்சிழந்து நிற்றல். See Dumbfound meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dumbfound?
Dumbfound is a verb.
How do you pronounce dumbfound?
Dumbfound is pronounced /ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dumbfound?
The past tense of dumbfound is dumbfounded.

Words near dumbfound in the dictionary

  1. dumbest ass
  2. dumbest-ass
  3. dumbestass
  4. dumbfluencer
  5. dumbfluencers
  6. dumbfound
  7. dumbfounded
  8. dumbfoundedly
  9. dumbfoundedness
  10. dumbfounder
  11. dumbfoundered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dumbfound (page history and authors); dumbfound (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dumbfound (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dumbfound (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dumbfound (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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