ASTONIED

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


Verb

astonied

simple past tense and past participle of astony

Adjective

astonied (comparative more astonied, superlative most astonied)

(archaic) In shock or confusion; bewildered.

Anagrams

• sedation

Source: Wiktionary


As*ton"ied, p. p.

Definition: Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

ASTONY

As*ton"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Astonied; p. pr. & vb. n. Astonying. See Astone.]

Definition: To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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