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dumbfounds

dumbfounds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dumbfound.

Meaning of dumbfound

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

Forms of dumbfounds

alternative formdumfounds

Questions about dumbfounds

What is dumbfounds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dumbfounds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dumbfound.

Words near dumbfounds in the dictionary

  1. dumbfounderment
  2. dumbfounders
  3. dumbfounding
  4. dumbfoundingly
  5. dumbfoundment
  6. dumbfounds
  7. dumbfuck
  8. dumbfuckers
  9. dumbfuckery
  10. Dumbfuckistan
  11. dumbfucks

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