dumbfoundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• dumfound

語源

Blend of dumb +‎ confound

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/, /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/

動詞

dumbfound (third-person singular simple present dumbfounds, present participle dumbfounding, simple past and past participle dumbfounded)

1. (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
   • 1989 December 3, Franklin Kameny, “Prostitution: Good, Right, And Desirable”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 5:

     A bunch of nice, middle-class women debated on how to "rescue" prostitutes from their "terrible" fate. By invitation, the conference was attended by a number of prostitutes, who dumbfounded those nice, bourgeois ladies by making it clear that they had no desire whatever to be "rescued"

同意語

• strike dumb
• flabbergast

派生語