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Word entry · 12 letters

astonishment

Best crossword clue

"Great surprise"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/Part of speech nounSorted aehimnnossttStarts with AEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2S3T4O5N6I7S8H9M10E11N12T

Definitions

  1. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising

Word origin

From astonish + -ment.

Used in a sentence

  • The class looked on in astonishment as their teacher proceeded to tear the pages out of the textbook.
  • 1630, John Milton, “On Shakespear” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Ruth Raworth, 1645 p. 27, Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
  • […] he dismissed all his Attendants with a turn of his Finger; at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an Instant, like Visions in a Dream, when we awake on a sudden.

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