ошеломля́ть — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bemuse verb To make someone feel puzzled or confused.
- boggle verb To overwhelm or bewilder the mind, especially with something surprising or hard to grasp.
- daze verb To leave someone feeling stunned, confused, or unable to think clearly, often from a shock, blow, or bright light.
- dumbfound verb To shock or confuse someone so much that they cannot speak.
- stun verb To knock someone senseless or make them lose awareness, often with a blow or shock.
- stupefy verb To make someone's mind dull and slow to react, as if in a daze.
Senses
ошеломля́ть is used for these senses in English:
- bemuse (transitive) To confuse or bewilder.
- boggle (transitive) To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
- daze (transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.
- dumbfound (transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
- knock back (transitive) To stun; to surprise.
- stun (transitive) To shock or surprise.
- stupefy (transitive, especially, law) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.
- take aback (idiomatic, transitive) To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
bemuse — full definition
- verb To make someone feel puzzled or confused.
- verb To find something funny, often in a mocking way.
- verb To dedicate something to the Muses, the goddesses of the arts.
- verb To make someone drunk.
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