boggle

Plural: boggles

Verb

Verb Forms: boggled, boggling, boggles

• To hesitate or be astonished, often struggling to comprehend.
• startle with amazement or fear
• hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
• overcome with amazement
  • "This boggles the mind!"
• (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
• To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
• To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
• To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch
• To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
• To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.

Noun

• A scruple or objection.
• A bungle; a botched situation.
• Alternative form of bogle.

Examples

• He boggled at the surprising news.
• It makes my mind BOGGLE to think of all the valid words I haven’t learned yet.
• The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
• The horror of the deed and its consequences boggle the imagination.
• The mind boggles.
• The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
• The vastness of space really boggles the mind.

Synonyms

bowl over, flabbergast

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