Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To astonish and bewilder. synonym: surprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Astonished; confounded. See
aston . - To astonish greatly; strike dumb with amazement; amaze; alarm.
- Synonyms Surprise, Astonish, Amaze, etc. (see
surprise ); confound, stagger, dumfounder, stupefy, shock. - To cause astonishment; amaze; stun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Stunned; astounded; astonished.
- transitive verb To stun; to stupefy.
- transitive verb To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
astonish ,bewilder ordazzle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb affect with wonder
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Perhaps that ubiquity puts a brake on its ability to astound or shape-shift.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review 2011
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The choices we make in the Middle East simply astound me.
Sharmine Narwani: Washington's Valentine's Day Faux Pas in the Middle East Sharmine Narwani 2011
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The depths of his cleverness continue to astound me.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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It never failed to astound midcareer people when Google asked to exhume those old records.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The most recent book to surprise and astound me was In the Courts of the Sun by B. D'Amato.
MIND MELD: What Was the Last SF/F Book That Surprised You? 2009
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The depths of his cleverness continue to astound me.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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It will astound you with revelations about our culture and its ecosystem.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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The depths of his cleverness continue to astound me.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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It will astound you with revelations about our culture and its ecosystem.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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As I've often said about Orson Scott Bigot, it continues to astound me that a field so dedicated to open minds continues to attract so many folks whose minds remain hopelessly closed ... and proudly so, at that!
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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April 24, 2008