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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

... The Baron was astounded. He had never, he said, heard the slightest whisper that the Brethren intended to abandon their ...

— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

... handkerchief was torn—I agree with that in the main. The lady and her friend fled from the place. Later in the night the place is burgled by some one who has had his eye on it for some time, and on entering the library he is astounded to find the dead body of the owner. Suppose he went home, and on thinking things over sent the letter to Scotland Yard with the idea that if the police got on to his tracks about the burglary the fact that he had told us about the murder would show he had nothing to ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

... his words Antilochus Astounded stood; long time his tongue in vain For utt'rance strove; his eyes were fill'd with tears, His cheerful voice was mute; yet not the less To Menelaus' bidding gave his care: Swiftly he sped; but to Laodocus, His ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... of the race, the Paumotus, New Zealand, and probably the Marquesas, and Hawaii having been stocked from it, the language developing furthest in it, and customs, refinements, and leisure reaching their highest pitch in the marvelous culture, savage though it was, which astounded the Europeans. Yet all these people remained curious as to what might be beyond the distance, and a hundred years ago were fitting out exploring expeditions to search for Utupu, a Utopia from which the god ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... good orators, with voices like the grasshoppers which sit upon a tree, and send forth their lily-like voice; so sat the elders of the Trojans on the Tower. When those ancient sages saw the fair Helen coming to them, they were astounded, and whispered one to another, "No wonder that the Trojans and the Achaians have suffered so many things for such a glorious woman! But, fair as she is, let her sail away, and not stay here to trouble us and our ...

— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various

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