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