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# astonished

«astonished» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very surprised, so much that you can hardly believe it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (astonished); verb form (past of «astonish»: astonish, astonishes, astonished, astonishing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very surprised, so much that you can hardly believe it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#m1)

2) (verb, past) Surprised someone very much: «The news astonished us.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Alice is astonished again and again in Wonderland: at a rabbit with a watch, at growing taller than a house, at the grinning cat. In stories, «astonished» is stronger than «surprised». In science lessons, results can astonish us when they go against what we expected. Phrases: «astonished at/by», «astonished to see».

### examples

- Alice was astonished to see a rabbit take a watch out of its pocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x1)
- We were astonished by the size of the dinosaur skeleton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x2)
- Mum was astonished when I tidied my room without being asked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x3)
- The crowd stared, astonished, at the magician. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x4)
- The Mole was astonished by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x5)
- The results of the experiment astonished the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x6)
- "I am astonished also!" said the General. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonished/#x7)

### note

«Astonished» describes the person who feels it; «astonishing» describes the thing that causes it: I was astonished; the trick was astonishing. Close words: amazed, astounded.

### In the corpora

- [They go and find Jaguar, who is so astonished that he falls backwards over his tail three times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/6/)
- [And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.820/)
- [Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye exceeding amazed, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.31/)
- [And Edom shall become an astonishment; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1307/)
- [Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.434/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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