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astound

[ uh-stound ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

astound

/ əˈstaʊnd /

Origin of astound¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English astoun(e)d, past participle of astonen, variant of astonyen “to thunder.” See astonish

Origin of astound¹

C17: from astoned amazed, from Old French estoné, from estoner to astonish

But it continues to astound me that there are troves of archives that have not been looked at.

The depth of rage, animus and violence that was directed at him—“Spittle flying, the N word flying”—continues to astound him.

In the first years of his frolicking life he loved also to astound Rome, and succeeded a number of times.

Yet she was a rare enough exception to astound my abstracted mind.

You rather astound me with respect to value of grounds of generalisation in the morphology of plants.

In it there appeared volunteer troops to astound seasoned veterans by their dash and discipline.

Master Mather is to bring his feathers to show the Governor, and to astound the Governor's skeptical wife.

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