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# astonish

«astonish» in Mova's school dictionary: **To surprise someone so much that they cannot quite…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (astonish, astonishes, astonished, astonishing)

### meaning for a pupil

To surprise someone so much that they cannot quite believe it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a clever answer or a wonder that makes the listeners gasp

### examples

- Your wise answers astonish me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonish/#x1)
- The magic astonished the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonish/#x2)
- You astonish me, Madam! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonish/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The Badger: «It would be astonishing indeed, if I had done it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/16/)
- [The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His rebuke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.666/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «astonish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.