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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. obsolete 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. From an alteration (due to words ending in -ish: abolish, banish, cherish, establish, furnish, etc.) of earlier astony, astone, aston, astun ("to astonish, confound, stun"), from Middle English astonien, astunien, astonen, astunen, astounen ("to astound, stun, astonish"), from Old English *āstunian, from ā- (perfective prefix) + stunian ("to make a loud sound, crash, resound, roar, bang, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy"), from Proto-Germanic *stunōnan (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)ton- (“to thunder, roar, groan”), equivalent to a- +‎ stun. Compare German erstaunen ("to astonish, amaze"). Influenced by Old French estoner, estuner, estonner ("to stun"), either from an assumed Latin *extonare, or from Old Frankish *stunen (“to stun”), related to Middle High German stunen ("to knock, strike, stun") and thus also to the Old English word above. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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