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Made silent by astonishment
- dumbstruck adjective dumb·struck ˈdəm-ˌstrək Synonyms of dumbstruck : made silent by astonishment
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The meaning of DUMBSTRUCK is made silent by astonishment. How to use dumbstruck in a sentence.
The adjective dumbstruck describes someone who's rendered speechless by an overwhelming emotion — in other words, struck dumb, or "silent," which is the oldest meaning of the word, directly from the Old English. Definitions of dumbstruck. adjective. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.
dumbstruck - as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "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".
temporarily deprived of speech through shock or surprise. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. dumbstruck in American English. (ˈdʌmˌstrʌk ) adjective. so shocked as to be speechless. : also ˈdumbˌstricken (ˈdʌmˌstrɪkən ) Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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The earliest known use of the adjective dumbstruck is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for dumbstruck is from around 1611, in a translation by George Chapman, poet and playwright. dumbstruck is formed within English, by compounding.
