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dumfounder

dumfounder is the alternative form of dumbfounder.

Meaning of dumbfounder

Verb

dumbfounder (third-person singular simple present dumbfounders, present participle dumbfoundering, simple past and past participle dumbfoundered)

  1. (transitive) To dumbfound.

See all 2 meanings of dumbfounder

Forms of dumfounder

third-person singular presentdumfounders
present participledumfoundering
past participledumfoundered
pastdumfoundered

Questions about dumfounder

What is dumfounder the alternative form of?
Dumfounder is the alternative form of dumbfounder.

Words near dumfounder in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dumfounder (page history and authors); dumbfounder (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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