| 单词 | dumbfound |
| 释义 | dumbfound (once / 7116 pages) v The verb dumbfound means to puzzle, mystify, or amaze. If people never expected you to amount to much in high school, but you grew up to be a rocket scientist, you will surely dumbfound your former classmates at your next reunion. The word dumbfound is a combination of the words dumb and confound. Dumb, in the original sense, means unable to speak. Confound is from the Latin word confundere, which means to mix together as well as to confuse. Thus the blended word dumbfound has the sense of to confuse to the point of speechlessness. If you see a solar eclipse for the first time, it might dumbfound you. WORD FAMILYdumbfound: dumbfounded, dumbfounding, dumbfounds+/dumbfounded: dumbfoundedest, dumbfoundedly/dumbfounding: dumbfoundingly USAGE EXAMPLESAfter an initial encounter with Norton, one dumbfounded female character says to another, “She’s terrifying.” Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) And the French were dumbfounded by his decision to confide state secrets to two journalists, who published them in a recent book. Economist(Dec 02, 2016) She heard a lullaby by the composer Richard Strauss, she says, and she was dumbfounded. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) v be a mystery or bewildering to Syn|Hypo|Hyper amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex mix up, stump cause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by defy, refuse, resistelude, especially in a baffling way bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly |
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