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gobsmack

gobsmack verb: to astonish, to render temporarily stuck for words.

Verb

gobsmack (third-person singular simple present gobsmacks, present participle gobsmacking, simple past and past participle gobsmacked)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, transitive) To astonish, to render temporarily stuck for words.

gobsmack meaning in Bengali

gobsmack in Bengali

বিস্মিত করা, সাময়িকভাবে নির্বাক করে দেওয়া

Forms of gobsmack

third-person singular presentgobsmacks
present participlegobsmacking
past participlegobsmacked
pastgobsmacked

Origin of gobsmack

Back-formation from gobsmacked and gobsmacking.

Questions about gobsmack

What does gobsmack mean?
Gobsmack means to astonish, to render temporarily stuck for words.
What is gobsmack in Bengali?
Gobsmack in Bengali is বিস্মিত করা, সাময়িকভাবে নির্বাক করে দেওয়া. See Gobsmack meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is gobsmack?
Gobsmack is a verb.
What is the past tense of gobsmack?
The past tense of gobsmack is gobsmacked.

Words near gobsmack in the dictionary

  1. gobsful
  2. gobshell
  3. gobshells
  4. gobshite
  5. gobshites
  6. gobsmack
  7. gobsmacked
  8. gobsmacker
  9. gobsmackers
  10. gobsmacking
  11. gobsmackingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gobsmack (page history and authors); gobsmack (Bengali 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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