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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nonplus /nɒnˈplʌs/

▶verb (nonplusses, nonplussing, nonplussed)

1 surprise and confuse; flummox.

2 (as adj. nonplussed) N. Amer. informal unperturbed.

▶noun a state of being nonplussed.

– origin C16: from L. non plus ‘not more’.

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