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Definition of Astound
1. Verb. Affect with wonder. "The performance is likely to astound Sue"; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
Specialized synonyms: Dazzle
Generic synonyms: Surprise
Derivative terms: Amazement, Astonishment
Definition of Astound
1. a. Stunned; astounded; astonished.
2. v. t. To stun; to stupefy.
Definition of Astound
1. Verb. To astonish, bewilder or dazzle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Astound
1. to amaze [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: amaze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astound
Literary usage of Astound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Black yawns the breach ; the point of many a spear Gleams through the smoke; load
shouts astound the m the vision of Elysium, so the ensigns of Gama ..."
2. Success Among Nations by Emil Reich (1904)
"Thus the Hellenes, the Renaissance Italians, the eighteenth - century Germans,
etc., who all astounded, and still astound, the world with their unparalleled ..."
3. A Glossary of French Slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"En boucher un coin, une surface, to astound, to make a successful retort to.
Ça lui en a bouché un coin, he was flabbergasted, struck all of a heap, ..."
4. The Book of Nature by John Mason Good (1826)
"... And hid his face, through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared
as astound ; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, ..."
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