flabbergastment
Noun
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Noun
flabbergastment (uncountable)
- Synonym of flabbergast#English|flabbergast (“overwhelming#Adjective|overwhelming shock#Noun|shock or surprise#Noun|surprise”)
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:surprise
- 1963. National Geographic, Vol. 122. National Geographic Society.
- It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
- 1988. John Barth. Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice. Anchor Press. page 69.
- I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
- 2002. Timothy Zahn. Angelmass. Macmillan. page 175.
- She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.
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