she was dumbfounded
she was shocked and almost speechless
TRANSLATION
dumbfounded = sprachlos, verblüfft, verdutzt, entgeistert, vom Donner gerührt LEO
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the American people rallied around their president. Indeed Kennedy's popularity rating was never higher, with eighty-two percent expressing their approval.
Kennedy himself was DUMBFOUNDED. "My God!" he exclaimed one day. "It's as bad as Eisenhower. The worse I do, the more popular I get!"
Kennedy himself was DUMBFOUNDED. "My God!" he exclaimed one day. "It's as bad as Eisenhower. The worse I do, the more popular I get!"
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dumb-found-ed
verb
To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
Synonyms:
surprise, astonish, amaze, astound, dumbfound, flabbergast
These verbs mean to affect a person strongly as being unexpected or unusual.
To SURPRISE is to fill with often sudden wonder or disbelief as being unanticipated or out of the ordinary: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity” (George S. Patton).
ASTONISH suggests overwhelming surprise: The sight of such an enormous crowd astonished us.
AMAZE implies astonishment and often bewilderment: The violinist's virtuosity has amazed audiences all over the world.
ASTOUND connotes shock, as from something unprecedented in one's experience: We were astounded at the beauty of the mountains.
DUMBFOUND adds to astound the suggestion of perplexity and often speechlessness: His question dumbfounded me, and I could not respond.
FLABBARGAST is used as a more colorful equivalent of astound, astonish, or amaze: “The aldermen... were... flabbergasted; they were speechless from bewilderment” (Benjamin Disraeli).
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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verb
To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
Synonyms:
surprise, astonish, amaze, astound, dumbfound, flabbergast
These verbs mean to affect a person strongly as being unexpected or unusual.
To SURPRISE is to fill with often sudden wonder or disbelief as being unanticipated or out of the ordinary: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity” (George S. Patton).
ASTONISH suggests overwhelming surprise: The sight of such an enormous crowd astonished us.
AMAZE implies astonishment and often bewilderment: The violinist's virtuosity has amazed audiences all over the world.
ASTOUND connotes shock, as from something unprecedented in one's experience: We were astounded at the beauty of the mountains.
DUMBFOUND adds to astound the suggestion of perplexity and often speechlessness: His question dumbfounded me, and I could not respond.
FLABBARGAST is used as a more colorful equivalent of astound, astonish, or amaze: “The aldermen... were... flabbergasted; they were speechless from bewilderment” (Benjamin Disraeli).
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"We were dumbfounded by Bob's suggestion that we reduce our staff by 25%"
