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for astounded
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Astound \As*tound"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Astounded, [Obs.]
Astound; p. pr. & vb. n. Astounding.] [See Astound, a.]
1. To stun; to stupefy.
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No puissant stroke his senses once astound.
--Fairfax.
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2. To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with
wonder, surprise, or fear.
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These thoughts may startle well, but not astound
The virtuous mind. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
astounded \astounded\ adj.
1. struck with an intense and usually sudden surprise
sufficient to produce wonder or perplexity
Syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, dumbfounded,
flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
astounded
adj 1: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise
or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a
standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the
vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded
viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City
bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists
found not one but at least three viruses" [syn: amazed,
astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "astounded":
agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, appalled, ashen, astonished,
at gaze, awed, awestricken, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered,
bewitched, blanched, breathless, captivated, confounded, cowed,
deadly pale, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured,
enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted,
frozen, gaping, gauping, gazing, gray with fear, horrified,
horror-struck, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, intimidated,
lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed,
overwhelmed, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, popeyed,
puzzled, rapt in wonder, scared stiff, scared to death, spellbound,
staggered, staring, stunned, stupefied, surprised, terrified,
terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven,
terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled,
thunderstruck, under a charm, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung,
wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering
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