单词 | to boggle the mind |
释义 | > as lemmasto boggle the mind transitive. To confound, bewilder; to amaze, astound. Now chiefly in to boggle the mind: to be bewildering, astounding, or mentally overwhelming; cf. the mind boggles at mind n.1 19k. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] abobc1330 confusec1350 confoundc1374 cumbera1375 passc1384 maskerc1400 mopc1425 enose1430 manga1450 overmusec1460 perplex1477 maze1482 enmuse1502 ruffle?a1505 unsteady1532 entangle1540 duddle1548 intricate1548 distraught1579 distract1582 mizzle1583 moider1587 amuse1595 mist1598 bepuzzle1599 gravel1601 plunder1601 puzzle1603 intrigue1612 vexa1613 metagrobolize?a1616 befumea1618 fuddle1617 crucify1621 bumfiddlea1625 implicate1625 giddify1628 wilder1642 buzzlea1644 empuzzle1646 dunce1649 addle1652 meander1652 emberlucock1653 flounder1654 study1654 disorient1655 embarrass?1656 essome1660 embrangle1664 jumble1668 dunt1672 muse1673 clutter1685 emblustricate1693 fluster1720 disorientate1728 obfuscate1729 fickle1736 flustrate1797 unharmonize1797 mystify1806 maffle1811 boggle1835 unballast1836 stomber1841 throw1844 serpentine1850 unbalance1856 tickle1865 fog1872 bumfuzzle1878 wander1897 to put off1909 defeat1914 dither1919 befuddle1926 ungear1931 to screw up1941 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy awhapec1300 stonyc1330 astony1340 astonec1374 mazec1390 stounda1400 stuna1400 to-stony?a1400 stounc1400 clumsec1440 overmusec1460 stonish1488 strike1533 dazzle1561 stoyne1563 stupefy1577 stupefact1583 obstupefy1611 astound1637 petrify1667 flabbergast1773 stagnatea1798 stama1800 swarf1813 boggle1835 razzle-dazzle1886 to knock sideways1890 stupend1900 gobsmack1987 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan I. viii. 95 He contrived to boggle them continually in perpetual intricacies, each more difficult than the other. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker ii. 36 The ocean might dry up, the rocks melt in the sun..and there was nothing in these incidents to boggle the philosopher. 1934 V. Woolf Let. 15 Feb. (1979) V. 277 What Angelica will live to see boggles me. 1958 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 28 A few years ago the idea of a man-made star no bigger than a grapefruit tracking through space would have boggled the mind. 1983 Black Perspective in Music 11 12 The multitude of magnificent vegetation draping the mountains took on a hue of colors that boggled the mind. 1992 I. Rankin Strip Jack (1993) v. 108 The headline writers were boggled, trying to decide which order to put things in. 2000 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 36/5 The sums staked on the next generation of mobile phones continue to boggle the mind. < as lemmas |
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