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Definition of Dumfounding
1. Adjective. Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder.
Definition of Dumfounding
1. Verb. (present participle of ''dumfound'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dumfounding
1. dumfound [v] - See also: dumfound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumfounding
Literary usage of Dumfounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside Route Pilot by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1922)
"The canal is nearly straight for about 7 miles to Dumfounding Bay and has an ...
At the southern end of Dumfounding Bay enter a creek by turning sharply to ..."
2. American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. by John Graham Brooks (1913)
"... For some weeks in Europe, I watched one of the first general strikes consciously
animated by the syndicalist spirit. It was very dumfounding at that ..."
3. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"... good-meaning, no thinking creature had been dumfounding a company of us with
a detail of inextricable difficulties, in which the circumstances of an ..."