flabbergasted
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- v overcome with amazement
- s as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless
- Moderate Premier Azaa had anticipated Companys' States' Rights demands, but he was flabbergasted last week by another demand of the Left parties that had put him into power.
- There he had his first brush with the metropolitan press, came off winner, hands down, over a flabbergasted World-Telegram reporter.
- The locals seemed flabbergasted by such claims, insisting that the crisis had immediately overwhelmed their capacity and that the feds had failed to step into the vacuum.