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AMAZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
Example:
stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses
Synonyms:
amazed; astonied; astonished; astounded; stunned
Classified under:
Similar:
surprised (taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb amaze
Context examples:
You may well be amazed, returned Mrs. Weston, still averting her eyes, and talking on with eagerness, that Emma might have time to recover— You may well be amazed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I have been scolding him to such a degree, my dear Catherine, you would be quite amazed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
His speech was clear and plain, with none of those strange London ways which had so amazed me.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was little fight left in the peasants, however, still dazed by the explosion, amazed at their own losses and disheartened by the arrival of the disciplined archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Are they foreigners?" I inquired, amazed at hearing the French language.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Presently the king’s daughter herself came down into the garden, and was amazed to see that the young man had done the task she had given him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
As I approached my outer door, I was amazed to see a key in it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was resolutely silent, however, and, from a determination of making him speak, she continued: I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'She a beauty! I should as soon call her mother a wit.'
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
