"nonplus" meaning in English

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          "text": "[A]ltering Vaudemont, to Vallemontanus, and metamorphoſing them, by ſuting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus.",
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          "text": "Being now made much abler to make their queries, of the ſecrets of that myſtery, by how much their often failings, had put them to often ſtops and nonpluſſes in the work.",
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          "text": "And if both of them are at a perfect Non-plus, and Baffle to all Humane Underſtanding; is it poſſible for Natural Reaſon to comprehend what the Heart of Man cannot conceive?",
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          "text": "I believe they'd ſoon be put to a non-plus—You'd be quite too much for them, I'm ſure.",
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          "ref": "1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 24:",
          "text": "You couldn’t have told it from my manner, but I was feeling more than a bit nonplussed. The spectacle before me was enough to nonplus anyone.",
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        "(transitive) To bewilder or perplex (someone); to confound, to flummox."
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          "roman": "obǎrkvam",
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          "word": "обърквам"
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "saattaa ymmälle"
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "verdutzen"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "verblüffen"
        },
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          "code": "el",
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          "roman": "berdévo",
          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "μπερδεύω"
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          "roman": "sastízo",
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          "word": "σαστίζω"
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "meghökkent"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "elképeszt"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "使困惑"
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "whakahēhē"
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "pasmar"
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          "word": "озадачивать"
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          "roman": "zaputyvatʹ",
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        {
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
          "word": "desconcertar"
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          "code": "es",
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          "text": "And if both of them are at a perfect Non-plus, and Baffle to all Humane Underſtanding; is it poſſible for Natural Reaſon to comprehend what the Heart of Man cannot conceive?",
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    {
      "word": "non-plus"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ne",
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    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌs/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "nonplusation"
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      "word": "nonplussed"
    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 24:",
          "text": "You couldn’t have told it from my manner, but I was feeling more than a bit nonplussed. The spectacle before me was enough to nonplus anyone.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To bewilder or perplex (someone); to confound, to flummox."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To bewilder or perplex (someone); to confound, to flummox."
      ],
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      "word": "non-plus"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obǎrkvam",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "обърквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zatrudnjavam",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "затруднявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "zaskočit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "hämmentää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "saattaa ymmälle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "askarruttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "verwirren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "verdutzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "verblüffen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "berdévo",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "μπερδεύω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sastízo",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "σαστίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "meghökkent"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "elképeszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Mandarin",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "使困惑"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "whakahēhē"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "pasmar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ozadačivatʹ",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "озадачивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaputyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "запутывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "confundir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "desconcertar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to bewilder or perplex (someone)",
      "word": "perplejar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nonplus"
}