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# astonishment

«astonishment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a feeling of very great surprise** — 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

noun (astonishment — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Astonishment is a feeling of very great surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, characters stare, gasp or freeze in astonishment. Phrases: «to my astonishment», «in astonishment», «stare in astonishment». In Alice, Alice is often filled with astonishment at Wonderland.

### examples

- To my astonishment, the cat began to talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x1)
- The crowd gasped in astonishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x2)
- Mole stared in astonishment at Rat's boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x3)
- Much to our astonishment, we won the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x4)
- Her eyes widened in astonishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x5)
- He shook his head in astonishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x6)
- The grand-vizir was filled with astonishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astonishment/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «great astonishment», not «an astonishment». Verb: astonish.

### In the corpora

- [The LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.765/)
- [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/)
- [And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1414/)
- [How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1419/)
- [Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.604/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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