一いち読どく呆ぼう然ぜん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

dumbfounded after a single reading

Describes the state of being so shocked or astonished by what one has read that one is left speechless. Often used in literary or emphatic contexts.

• その手て紙がみを一いち読どく呆然ぼうぜんとした。

  I was dumbfounded after reading that letter.

• 報ほう告こく書しょを一いち読どく呆然ぼうぜん、しばらく言こと葉ばが出でなかった。

  After a single reading of the report, I was dumbfounded and couldn't speak for a while.