单词 | dumfounder |
释义 | dumbˈfounder, dumfounder, v. [f. prec.: assimilated to founder v.] = prec.
1710Fanatick Feast 16 Both which Blockheads..I could dumb-founder with a single syllogism. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 181 Poor Beck, poor Beck; 'fore gad, she's quite dumb-founder'd. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) 156 I..stood..dumbfoundered at..her miraculous self-possession. 1859G. Rawlinson Herodotus vi. cxxix, Hippoclides, who quite dumbfoundered the rest, called aloud to the flute-player, and bade him strike up a dance. dumbˈfoundered ppl. a.; dumbˈfounderment.
1880Blackw. Mag. Mar. 368 A state of body and mind made up one-half of benumbment, the other half of dumb⁓founderment. 1883A. S. Swan Aldersyde i. x. 160 In dumfoundered amazement. |

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