flabbergasted
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- (UK) IPA: /ˈflæbəɡæstəd/, SAMPA: /"fl{b@g{st@d/
- (US) IPA: /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/, SAMPA: /"fl{b@`%g{st@d/
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flabbergasted (comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)
- Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.[1]
- He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
- 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert. Houghton-Mifflin.
- Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
- 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home. Gospel Light. page 57.
- From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
- (euphemistic) Damned.[2]
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flabbergasted
- Simple past tense and past participle of flabbergast.
