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dumfound

dumfound is the alternative form 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 dumfound

third-person singular presentdumfounds
present participledumfounding
past participledumfounded
pastdumfounded

Questions about dumfound

What is dumfound the alternative form of?
Dumfound is the alternative form of dumbfound.

Words near dumfound in the dictionary

  1. Dumdum fever
  2. dumdums
  3. dumetorine
  4. dumetose
  5. Dumești
  6. dumfound
  7. dumfounded
  8. dumfounder
  9. dumfoundered
  10. dumfoundering
  11. dumfounderment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dumfound (page history and authors); dumbfound (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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