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A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock..
Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
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.
Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]
But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
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Flabbergaster means A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock..
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Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
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