What is the meaning of dumbfounded?

verb

Be a mystery or bewildering to.
- usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

adjective

As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.
- usage: "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"
- synonyms: dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck, dumbstruck, dumbstricken

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