astounded

English

Verb

astounded

1. simple past and past participle of astound

Adjective

astounded (comparative more astounded, superlative most astounded)

1. Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
   • 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, 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,^[1]

     […] 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,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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 […]

Derived terms

• astoundedly
• astoundedness

Translations

surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered

• Arabic: مَذْهُول m (maḏhūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: مذهول m (mazhūl)

• Bulgarian: поразе́н (bg) (porazén), сли́сан (bg) (slísan)
• Czech: ohromený (cs) m, užaslý m, šokovaný m
• Danish: forbløffet, lamslået
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• Finnish: hämmästynyt (fi), ällistynyt, ällikällä lyöty
• German: erstaunt (de)
• Russian: изумлённый (ru) (izumljónnyj), поражённый (ru) (poražónnyj), удивлённый (ru) (udivljónnyj)
• Swedish: förvånad (sv)
• Westrobothnian: ,