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Synonyms for speechless

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Synonyms for speechless

lacking the power or faculty of speech

temporarily unable or unwilling to speak, as from shock or fear

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Synonyms for speechless

temporarily incapable of speaking

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I went away speechless to my own room; and when I found myself alone there, burst out crying.
The answer literally struck him speechless. With amazement and indignation in his face, he looked at Mrs.
At last a score or more, mostly men, remained where they were, speechless, staring, excited.
Would you ignore the very Alphabet of Nature?" He ceased, speechless for fury; and some time elapsed before I could induce him to resume his narrative.
'I don't think I care to talk about that, if you please,' she would say, and strike the boldest speechless by her unmistakable pain; this upon all topics - dress, pleasure, morality, politics, in which the formula was changed to 'my papa thinks otherwise,' and even religion, unless it was approached with a particular whining tone of voice.
For a minute, alcoholic fumes kept the captain speechless. "Blasted Sawbones!" was all he considered necessary.
That speechless tongue, those prisoned features, that heart so freighted with unspoken troubles, and that breast so oppressed with its piteous secret had been here.
Alejano, parang speechless siya,' Trillanes said in an interview on Thursday.
Afterwards a "speechless" Geraghty drew comparisons with the great Moscow Flyer, who he partnered to victory in the 2003 Arkle - before going on to win the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2003 and 2005.
Natalie, 29, was left Speechless and shaking when her boyfriend of one year then got down on one knee.
Cross Keys Glam Wands 17 19 A TRY out of the blue by Wanderers replacement wing Steve Cullen, following the last passage of the match, was enough to render Cross Keys forwards' coach Greg Woods speechless.
"it's the only time that I've ever seen Bamber speechless."
Bookies Ladbrokes have made Suzanne the 8- 1 favourite to win the talent show after she left judges speechless with a performance of Baby Love on Saturday.
Robert Kincaid, of Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland, said he was ``left speechless'' after doctors discovered the bullet during a routine check-up.