astounded

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of astound

comparative more astounded · superlative most astounded

1. Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.

   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 […]

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   […] 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.

   1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 279-282

   […] 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.

   1774, Thomas Hull, Richard Plantagenet: A Legendary Tale, London: J. Bell, page 13

   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 […]

   1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 19, in The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 168