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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ʹflæbə(ɹ)ɡɑːst/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ʹflæbəɹɡæst/
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈflæbə(r)ˌgɑːst/

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to stun, confound or amaze, especially with ludicrous affect.

Substantiivit

  1. (uncountable) Overwhelming surprise, confusion or shock.
  2. (countable) An awkward person.

Esimerkit

  • He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began.
  • Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs.
  • I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender.
  • The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn't react in time for anyone to see it.
  • Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night — in the senate, at Cox's museum, at Ranelagh, and even at church.
  • Well, some degree of the same pleasure may be experienced when one flabbergasts some romantic Schiller, by putting out one's tongue at him when he least expects it.
  • For instance, I could offend, shock, annoy, distress and flabbergast your father utterly in five minutes, but the more I tried to offend, shock, distress or flabbergast Henry James, the more disinterestedly sympathetic he would appear.
  • He loved to flabbergast his associates by announcing some startling new policy without consulting any of them.
  • "The idea may surprise you, but I intend that it shall flabbergast the poor foolish Englishmen mured up behind those pine and redwood logs. Flabbergast 'em, I say!"
  • When I saw my house on fire, the flabbergast overcame me and I just stood and stared, too shocked to comprehend what I was seeing.
  • His flabbergast was so great he couldn't even come up with a plausible answer.
  • Then quit your flabbergast, and talk in plain English.
  • Bob's big-eyed flabbergast struck him as comic and he laughed and said, “Lying sack, hey?”
  • She was flabbergasted by his remark.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiflabbergasted
Imperfektiflabbergasted
Partisiipin preesensflabbergasting
Monikkoflabbergasts
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensflabbergasts