Adjective
Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
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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.
[…] 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.
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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 […]
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 […]
Adjective
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
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an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation
I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
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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