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astonished

[ uh-ston-isht ]

adjective

  1. filled with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amazed:

    Before the eyes of the astonished crowd, the magician pulled off everything from simple card tricks to the disappearance of his lovely assistant.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of astonish.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ٴDz·· adverb
  • ܲ··ٴDz· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of astonished1

First recorded in 1510–20, for an earlier sense; astonish + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective sense; astonish + -ed 1( def ) for the verb sense
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Then when she got to the urban core, she was astonished.

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She says she is "astonished by the speed and thoroughness with which Bridget Phillipson has moved to dismantle every main pillar of the system".

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The astonished sharks, clearly not used to being on the wrong end of an ambush, would thrash — sometimes dramatically breaching the surface when the blade went in — and then dive into the murky depths.

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In 2000, Claude Cassirer, a San Diego resident, was astonished to learn that the painting that he remembered from his grandmother’s apartment in Berlin was hanging in a museum in Madrid.

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Baltazar still seems astonished, saying again: “I didn’t think this was possible.”

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