You have the presence that would dumbfound any attack.

Some of X's attested names and answers would dumbfound you.

"But the fact doesn't dumbfound me, if that's what you're hoping for."

They also gain the ability to hypnotize and dumbfound victims with just a stare, even other dragons.

I felt proud to be at the side of a man who had something with which to dumbfound other men famous in the world for their wisdom.

In the series, some of his comments and actions can be seen to dumbfound his co-workers and superiors.

He'd dumbfound Stu with that.

Size, by itself, can dumbfound.

Astonishing as historical Portsmouth is, a trip three miles seaward to Great Island is sure to dumbfound.

Really, Boleyn, I thought I was coming to understand England, but this leaves me completely dumbfound."

And so he would but for that whimsical element of chance, which will for ever muddle up the affairs of this world and dumbfound the prophets.

From the moment that dull sounds had started from the inner wall, The Shadow had been prepared to dumbfound Bryland.

He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him.

The boy's ability to evade the devil may spring from the devil's inability to dumbfound him; gaining power over people by this means is a motif found in other folktales.

The contrast of this wet, steaming clay with the gulfs of atom-like powder that surrounded it was so inexplicable, so utterly amaaing as to baffle and dumbfound all conjecture.

Mr. Bradley's reserved posture this morning seemed to dumbfound Dan Pierce, who interviewed him on WGIR from the Merrimack Restaurant on Elm Street.

As this year's Maple Leaf press guide put it, "He continues to defy his critics and dumbfound his detractors by basically just doing whatever he pleases, regardless of what anyone else thinks."

She later recalled that, overwhelmed, she vowed to "show such artists, to amaze, flabbergast, dumbfound Paris . . . the elite, the masses, the artists from Picasso to the hippie painters of the streets."

O'Neill concurs: "a dizzying array of wildly entertaining and often quite maddening rhetorical strategies are deployed in order to beguile, browbeat, dumbfound, dazzle, confuse, mislead, overwhelm, and generally subdue the reader into acceptance."

For the lewd and licentious Purempecha to see a man traveling with his own, everyday, commonplace female mate-in that country where, for the asking, he could have any other mate, or kind of mate, or number of mates-that would indeed dumbfound the Purempecha.