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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nonplus  \Non"plus`\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Nonplused}or 
  {Nonplussed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Nonplusing}  or  {Nonplussing}.] 
  To  puzzle;  to  confound;  to  perplex;  to  cause  to  stop  by 
  embarrassment. 
 
  He  has  been  nonplused  by  Mr  Dry's  desiring  him  to  tell 
  what  it  was  that  he  endeavored  to  prove.  --Spectator. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nonplussed 
  adj  :  filled  with  bewilderment;  "at  a  loss  to  understand  those 
  remarks";  "puzzled  that  she  left  without  saying 
  goodbye"  [syn:  {at  a  loss(p)},  {nonplused},  {puzzled}] 




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