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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1772 to overwhelm with shock, surprise, or wonder ; dumbfound Synonyms: see surprise • flabbergastingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (esp. as flabbergasted adj.) colloq. overwhelm with astonishment; dumbfound. Etymology: 18th c.: perh. f. FLABBY + AGHAST

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flabbergast Flab"ber*gast, v. t. [Cf. Flap, and Aghast.] To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] --Beaconsfield.

Moby Thesaurus

amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, confound, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, dumbfounder, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, shock, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise