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stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak.

Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.

A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

roduce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

l 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.

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

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

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

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

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

quality 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.

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