[
US
/ˈbɑɡəɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈɒɡəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈɒɡəl/ ]
VERB
- hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
- startle with amazement or fear
-
overcome with amazement
This boggles the mind!
How To Use boggle In A Sentence
- Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice? Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
- My mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
- Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum. The Haunted House
- Scattered accounts of Tony Fernandez’s postprison activities boggle the mind. Without Pity
- His first employers thought a Cajun audience might boggle at a journalist called ‘Wiltfong’.
- The perfidiousness of their ruthless attack boggles the mind of decent Americans. Balkinization
- It boggles my mind how much money it must have cost to set up each base camp.
- The fact that an anti-war movement even exists, is gaining strength, and dares to have a tint of radical coloring must boggle their minds.
- Today's post on math-magical thinking is a mind-boggler, with a link to a very cool magic site that will surprise and delight you. Archive 2007-04-01
- My mind boggles at the amount of work still to do.