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/əstˈaʊndɪd/ Listen

verb

Astound v. t. (past & past part. astounded, obs. astound; pres. part. astounding)

To stun; to stupefy. "No puissant stroke his senses once astound."

To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. "These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind."

adjective

astounded adj.

Struck with an intense and usually sudden surprise sufficient to produce wonder or perplexity

Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck

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Etymology of 'Astounded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Astounded" Quotes from Famous Books

... boisterous laugh he went out into the street and shut the door. Virginia, astounded, looked at her ...

— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow

... out amid the dead silence of the dazed and astounded spectators. Commodus killed the second as ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... who did not immediately betray his self-conceit by making that gallant declaration. Feeling sure that the Russian had done so, when we placed the pieces on the board again I offered him my queen. He seemed astounded and hurt; and then for the first time I thought that if this Russian were an exception to his sex, and I had not understood his remark, then it was a rudeness to offer him my queen. I was fortunately relieved from my perplexing situation by the approach of my cavalier, and as he led me away ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various

... the most effective and formidable part—striking the Jury and Court, as well as the people, with an "awe," which rendered no other evidence necessary to overwhelm the mind and secure conviction. The Prisoners themselves were amazed and astounded by it. Mr. Hale, in his account of the proceedings, says: "When George Burroughs was tried, seven or eight of the confessors, severally called, said, they knew the said Burroughs; and saw him at a Witch-meeting at the Village; and heard him exhort the company to pull down the Kingdom of God ...

— Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather - A Reply • Charles W. Upham

... the planter, for she was hardly less beautiful, though her father was not considered a millionnaire, to say nothing of a ten-millionnaire. Major Pierson did not tell what he was thinking about; but he was certainly astounded and badly set back when the naval officer intimated that the capture of the Bellevite might be ...

— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic

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