AMAZED

amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned

(adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; “an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation”; “I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral”; “astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing”; “stood in stunned silence”; “stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

amazed (comparative more amazed, superlative most amazed)

Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised. The following adposition may be: at, with or by.

Synonyms

• See also astonished

Verb

amazed

simple past tense and past participle of amaze

Source: Wiktionary


AMAZE

A*maze", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Amazing.] Etym: [Pref. a- + maze.]

1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

Syn.

– To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise.

– Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the

A*maze", v. i.

Definition: To be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.

A*maze", v. t.

Definition: Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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