thunderstruck

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  1. adjective Affected with sudden astonishment or amazement.

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  • They were thunderstruck, and I have to confess that I was almost as much taken aback as they were. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • There sat my father, thunderstruck, the Moniteur in his hand. —  Memoirs
  • She had stared at it, thunderstruck, astounded, speechless, falling to her hands and knees to see it closer, to trace with her eyes and fingers every infinite fractal detail of it. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • "The Nation was thunderstruck, alarmed and indignant," says Walpole Memoirs of the Reign of George the Third, i. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • I was thunderstruck, and I called him up right away. —  Garwood, Julie - Buchanan 1 - Heartbreaker
 

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/ˈθəndərstrək/
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