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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To stun, as with a blow; benumb; give a stupefying shock to.
  2. To stun or strike dumb with sudden fear; confound.
  3. To strike or impress with wonder, surprise, or admiration; surprise; amaze.
  4. Synonyms Surprise, Amaze, etc. (see surprise); startle, shock.

Wiktionary

  1. v. surprise, flabbergast

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.
  2. v. To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. affect with wonder

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of Middle English astonen, from Old French estoner, from Vulgar Latin *extonāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin tonāre, to thunder; see (s)tenə- in Indo-European roots.

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