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Dumbfound vs Fluster - What's the difference?

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Dumbfound is a related term of fluster.


As verbs the difference between dumbfound and fluster

is that dumbfound is to confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless while fluster is .

dumbfound

English

Alternative forms

* dumfound

Verb

(en verb)
  • To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.

    • fluster

    English

    Verb

  • (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
  • * Macaulay
    • His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
  • (by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
    • He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
  • To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
  • * South
    • The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.

    Derived terms

    * flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)

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