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ASTOUND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affect with wonder

Example:

Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!

Synonyms:

amaze; astonish; astound

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "astound" is one way to...):

surprise (cause to be surprised)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "astound"):

dazzle (amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will astound her

The performance is likely to astound Sue

Credits

 Context examples: 

Hey! Why, what the dickens has come to the fellow? said the old gentleman, as Laurie came running downstairs and brought up with a start of surprise at the astounding sight of Jo arm in arm with his redoubtable grandfather.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Maud and I were astounded.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was swept off his feet by the other's work, and astounded that no attempt had been made to publish it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was astounded to see this conjunction.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

My tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We were too astounded to speak.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was astounded at the suddenness of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was their ignorance that astounded him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had no doubt of what it would be, and he was astounded when he heard her say: It is beautiful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)