astounded
English
Verb
astounded
- simple past tense and past participle of astound
Adjective
astounded (comparative more astounded, superlative most astounded)
- Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 279-282:
- […] now they lye
Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire,
As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d,
No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.
- 1774, Thomas Hull, Richard Plantagenet: A Legendary Tale, London: J. Bell, p. 13,
- […] wrapt in Suspense
- And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d;
- When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense
- A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327,
- Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]
- 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, 1976, Chapter 19, p. 168,
- The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]
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Derived terms
- astoundedly
- astoundedness
Translations
surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered
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