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Nonplus

verb

(past & past part. nonplused or nonplussed; pres. part. nonplusing or nonplussing)

Be a mystery or bewildering to. Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex. "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"

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"Nonplus" Quotes from Famous Books

... it," I continued, flourishing my hat over my head, "tanner, in this instance, is not an English word." Is it not surprising that the language of Mr. Petulengro and of Tawno Chikno, is continually coming to my assistance whenever I appear to be at a nonplus with respect to the derivation of crabbed words? I have made out crabbed words in AEschylus by means of the speech of Chikno and Petulengro, and even in my Biblical researches I have derived no slight assistance from it. It appears to be a kind of picklock, an open sesame, Tanner—Tawno! ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

Words linked to "Nonplus" : stump, mix up, elude, escape, discombobulate, confound, bedevil, fuddle, throw, confuse, riddle, fox, befuddle