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res without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also dumbfound.] Spectator.

st vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.

Showing self-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.

yes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.

To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 1 john iii. 13.

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23.

To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze. South.

The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.

uality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.

Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. Deut. xxviii. 37.

as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening. Swift. He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl. Sir W. Scott.

Astonishment; amazement. [Obs.] Spenser. Gay.

To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] Glanvill.

To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse. De Foe.