astounded

astounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of astound

astounded (comparative more astounded, superlative most astounded)

1. Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, 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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