ASTOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astound mean? 

• ASTOUND (verb)
  The verb ASTOUND has 1 sense:

1. affect with wonder

  Familiarity information: ASTOUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTOUND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they astound    ... he / she / it astounds   
Past simple: astounded   
Past participle: astounded   
-ing form: astounding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affect with wonder

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

amaze; astonish; astound

Context example:

Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!

Hypernyms (to "astound" is one way to...):

surprise (cause to be surprised)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "astound"):

dazzle (amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will astound her
The performance is likely to astound Sue

 Context examples 

This new moon has astounding support from other planets, including action-planet Mars, now in the perfect spot to motivate you from his perch in your eighth house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They were experienced publishers and no one had been more astounded than they at the success which had followed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"These hydrocarbons rain down on the surface, flow in streams and rivers, accumulate in lakes and seas, and evaporate into the atmosphere. It's quite an astounding world!"

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)

If his silver razor-heater had taken to evil ways he could not have been more astounded.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no conception that vessels ever came so far north and was astounded at the sight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To my astounded senses the one seems most terrible and the other as black as night.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when the frames of poles were made into tepees by being covered with cloth and skins, White Fang was astounded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Clara, he continued, looking at my mother, you surprise me! You astound me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sherlock Holmes’s answer was an astounding one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here you find us; and we cannot wonder that you, who are new to tumbling, should be astounded, since many great barons, earls, marshals and knights, who have wandered as far as the Holy Land, are of one mind in saying that they have never seen a more noble or gracious performance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)