dumb with amazement

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• dumb — dumbly, adv. dumbness, n. /dum/, adj., dumber, dumbest, v. 1. lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull witted. 2. lacking the power of speech (often offensive when applied to humans): a dumb animal. 3. temporarily unable to speak: dumb …   Universalium

• dumb — adj. 1 unable to speak VERBS ▪ be ▪ become, be struck ▪ They were struck dumb with amazement. PREPOSITION ▪ with …   Collocations dictionary

• dumb — [[t]dʌm[/t]] adj. er, est, v. usage: dumb in the sense “lacking the power of speech” is offensive when applied to humans (but not animals), probably because the word also means “stupid; dull witted.” The noun dummy in the sense “a person who… …   From formal English to slang

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• dumbfound — /ˈdʌmfaʊnd / (say dumfownd) verb (t) to strike dumb with amazement. Also, dumfound. {blend of dumb and confound} –dumbfounder, noun –dumbfounded, adjective …  

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• awe-struck — adj 1. solemn, reverent, reverential, awed. See reverent (defs.1, 2). 2. dismayed, daunted, cowed, intimidated, overawed; overwhelmed, terrified, horrorstruck, appalled, abashed; stupefied, dumbfounded, struck speechless or mute or dumb with… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• strike — [strīk] vt. struck, struck or occas. (but for vt. 11 commonly and for vt. 8 & 15 usually) stricken, striking, [ME striken, to proceed, flow, strike with rod or sword < OE strican, to go, proceed, advance, akin to Ger streichen < IE * streig …   English World dictionary

• Sirente crater — The Sirente crater is a small shallow seasonal lake in Abruzzo. The lake is located at the center of a mountainous highland north of the Sirente massif in the Apennines and is 13 kilometres from the small village of Secinaro. In the late 1990s,… …   Wikipedia

• dumbfound — dumbfounderment, n. /dum fownd , dum fownd /, v.t. to make speechless with amazement; astonish. Also, dumbfounder. [1645 55; DUMB + (CONFOUND] Syn. amaze, confound, astound, stagger. * * * …   Universalium