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astonied

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8 lettersPronunciation /əˈstɒnid/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adeinostStarts with AEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock

Word origin

Apparently from astony, astonie, from Old French estonner, from Vulgar Latin *extonare. Compare English astonish, of which this was claimed in olden sources to be the more "correct" (or at least Biblical) version of the word.

Used in a sentence

  • Then were assembled vnto me euery one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had bene caried away, and I sate astonied, vntill the euening sacrifice.
  • Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes, And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.

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