What's the difference between dumbfound and speechless?

Dumbfound


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My mother stood there with her arms around us two kids and she cried, and I just stood there dumbfounded.
  • (2) But one of the girls responded, “The statue is the weight of the people’s allegiance for the Dear Leader.” The journalists were dumbfounded.
  • (3) Not pounds and pence, plans and policies, but people.” In a moment of arch-mischief, he thanked his dumbfounded tribe for their part in backing causes many of them still abhor: “It wasn’t just me who put social justice, equality for gay people, tackling climate change, and helping the world’s poorest at the centre of the Conservative party’s mission – we all did.” You could see them looking at one another, as if to say: did we?
  • (4) While other politicians decline to comment, the French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, says he is "dumbfounded" by Polanski's "absolutely dreadful" detention, declaring forcibly that it made "no sense" for the director to be "thrown to the lions for an ancient story, imprisoned while travelling to an event that was intending to honour him: caught, in short, in a trap".
  • (5) And many people were dumbfounded that Theresa May opted to keep Jeremy Hunt as health secretary .
  • (6) The fearful symmetry of his technique is dumbfounding.
  • (7) EU officials and diplomats reacted with outrage and the Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, appeared dumbfounded by the demand.
  • (8) He said he couldn't believe it and neither could I. I was dumbfounded, I couldn't understand it at all because only months before he'd said he was at the biggest club in the world and he wanted to stay for life.
  • (9) The authors report 40 hydatid cysts of rare localization selected during a period of 11 years and represent 10.75% on the whole of the hydatid cysts operated during the same period all localizations dumbfounded.
  • (10) I was dumbfounded and devastated, having had no idea they existed, and I have spent literally hundreds of hours scouring them, trying to find my father and brother.
  • (11) Vaxevanis told the Guardian he was "dumbfounded" at the news, and attributed the move to concerted efforts on the part of the judiciary to silence the press.
  • (12) The fate of Mujuru, who most expected to take over from President Mugabe, has clearly dumbfounded many political pundits.
  • (13) Which is why I was dumbfounded when he suddenly turned up at the hospital one evening in an ambulance, to ask me one final question.
  • (14) As Mike Myers stood dumbfounded beside him, the rapper extemporised on race, money and aid efforts , finishing with the now notorious accusation: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
  • (15) Peverel, the controversial company that is the biggest manager of retirement homes in the UK, last week admitted to systematic price-fixing by a subsidiary, but campaigners were left dumbfounded after the company entirely escaped penalties and fines.
  • (16) And it broke my heart when I read that, after his arrest he said , “It made me feel like I wasn’t human” and “it made me feel like a criminal.” But as much as I am outraged at the treatment this young boy endured, I’m dumbfounded at the ignorance of the adults in his school including the police who literally cannot tell the difference between a clock, a bomb and a “fake bomb”, let alone the kind of kid who might bring any of the above.
  • (17) The idea was that Karadžić’s bodyguards, known as the Preventiva, would be dumbfounded and slow down their vehicle long enough for the Delta Force ambushers to fire a specially designed concussion grenade at the car doors to stun the passengers.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: UK can have greater role in Europe post-Brexit Senior mandarins remain dumbfounded by his appointment, pointing to his long record of undiplomatic remarks about vital UK allies ranging from Turkey to the US and Europe.
  • (19) Polanski was born in Paris to Polish parents and has French citizenship; France's culture minister Frédéric Mitterand said he was "dumbfounded" at the arrest, adding that he "strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them".
  • (20) I was in the pub on Saturday talking to some non-gamer friends about the controversy, I explained the Xbox One restrictions to them and they were completely dumbfounded about why anyone would buy it.

Speechless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
  • (a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
  • (2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
  • (3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
  • (4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
  • (5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
  • (6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
  • (7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
  • (8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
  • (9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
  • (10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
  • (11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
  • (12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
  • (13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
  • (14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
  • (15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
  • (16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
  • (17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
  • (18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
  • (19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
  • (20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.

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