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flabbergaster

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Flabbergaster (noun) means someone or something that leaves people utterly astonished.

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Someone or something that leaves people utterly astonished.

"This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria." — Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum (2005)

A feeling of being startled or afraid.

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