boggle
bo guhl
- v startle with amazement or fear
- v hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
- v overcome with amazement
This boggles the mind!
- This seemed to both please and confuse our NATO allies, and boggle the rest of the world.
- He is an old revolutionary who on one occasion did not boggle at collaborating with an ambitious dictator-to-be to overthrow constituted authority.
- But wherever you go in China now, you come across projects that boggle the mind.