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词汇 boggle
释义 boggle
verb
uk /ˈbɒɡ.əl/ us /ˈbɑː.ɡəl/
[ T ]
to confuse or surprise someone very much:
Interpreting the complicated, 154-page document still boggles many employers.
He was boggled by the idea that people could hate one another just because of the colour of their skin.
 the mind boggles
used for saying that you find something very difficult to understand or imagine:
The mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
 boggle the mind(alsoboggle someone's mind, boggle the imagination, boggle someone's imagination, boggle the brain, boggle someone's brain)
to be very difficult for someone to understand or imagine:
To think about how people lived 3,000 years ago boggles the mind.
[ I ]
to be very surprised, confused, or uncertain about something:
boggle atHe boggled at the suggestion.他对这个建议犹豫不决。
This left the audience to boggle over what exactly had just happened.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Puzzle and confuse
addle
baffle
bedazzle
befuddle
bemuse
cloud
discombobulate
disorientate
do someone's head inidiom
flummox
fox
fuddle
puzzle
search
throw
throw (someone) a curve (ball)/curveballidiom
throw someone off balanceidiom
tie
tie someone (up) in knotsidiom
unbalance

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
Surprised

Related words


boggling
mind-boggling

boggle | American Dictionary


boggle
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈbɑɡ·əl/
to have difficulty imagining or accepting something as true or possible, or to give the mind such difficulty:
[ T ]It boggles the mind to think about how much money was wasted.

Examples of boggle


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According to the authors, the size of this gap totals $51 trillion1 - a figure that boggles the mind, and well it should.
When we turn our minds to a ' mystery ' (in any but the first sense) we feel our minds ' boggling ', or giving out.
My mind boggles at how one defines a "poverty" child.
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The mind boggles at the thought of them ever meeting, and what they might produce if they did.
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He is boggled, too, and so he should be.
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The mind boggles and my stomach turns at the prospect.
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The mind boggles when one considers the competitive situation in the food industry.
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The mind boggles, but the nation is warned.
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The ordinary small property-owner is simply boggled when he looks at the form.
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The mind boggles at the degree of humiliation to which children may be subjected by their fellows if they were carrying electronic tags.
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I believe that it would open up a veritable minefield, and the imagination boggles at the muddle, confusion and possible danger that would ensue.
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Frankly, my mind boggles at the number of computations that there could be in having different codes applying to different parts of subsection (2).
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The mind boggles to think of those who loved him who were so freely thrown overboard.
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One's imagination boggles at the difficulties which must beset the poor man in knowing what he can do and what he cannot do.
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The mind boggles at the sort of figure that would be discussed today.
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