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Dumbfound vs Thunderstrike - What's the difference?

dumbfound | thunderstrike |

As verbs the difference between dumbfound and thunderstrike

is that dumbfound is to confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless while thunderstrike is to strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.

dumbfound

English

Alternative forms

* dumfound

Verb

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

    • thunderstrike

    English

    Verb

  • To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • (figurative) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
  • * Milton
    • Drove before him, thunderstruck .
    (Webster 1913)