Astonish

Definition: Astonish

Astonish

Verb

1. Affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "astonish" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Note: Astonish \As*ton"ish\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Astonished; present participle verb or noun Astonishing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Astonish

Inexpectation

Surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound; (strike with wonder).

Wonder

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Crosswords: Astonish

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• Astonish Me Yahweh! (reference)

• Astonish me, adventures in contemporary theater (reference)

• Astonish Us in the Morning (reference)

• Baseball, Bouillabaisse, and the Best of Class: How to Increase Your Personal Power Energize Your Team and Astonish Your Customers (reference)

• Origami to Astonish and Amuse (reference)

  (more book examples)

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And then you must see her ears, and then you must see her tail, and that will astonish you.

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Expressions using "astonish": astonish smb. ♦ dumfounder astonish. Additional references.

Albanian

mahnis (bemuse, flabbergast), habis (amuse, astound, bemuse, confound, daze, dazzle, knock, wow, zap), çudit (amaze, daze, knock, marvel, surprise), çudis (amaze, daze, knock, marvel, surprise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ذهل (amaze, astound, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, distract, flabbergast, flummox, maze, shake, shock, stagger, stun, stupefy, surprise, take a fancy to, taken aback, wonder), ‏شده (amaze, befog, bemuse, dumbfound, flabbergast, maze, stupefy, wither), ‏دهش (amaze, stagger, startle, stun, surprise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

учудвам (astound, startle, surprise), удивявам, почудвам (amaze). (various references)

Chinese 

駭 (startle), 吃惊 (Astonished), 使吃驚 (surprise). (various references)

Czech

uvést k údiv, udivit (amaze, astound, surprise). (various references)

Farsi 

متحیرکردن (Admire, Dumbfound, Dumfound), گیج کردن (Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Daze, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Muddle, Perplex, Petrify, Stump, Stun, Stupefy). (various references)

Finnish

kummatuttaa (fill with wonder, surprise), ihmetyttää (fill with wonder), ihmetys (fill with wonder), hämmästyttää (amaze, surprise). (various references)

French

ahurir (astound), étonnons, étonnez, étonner, étonnent, époustoufler, ébahir. (various references)

German

überraschen (catch unawares, overtake, overtaken, surprise, take aback, take by surprise, to surprise, to take by surprise). (various references)

Greek 

εκπλήσσω (amaze, astound, flabbergast, surprise). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תמי�" (puzzle), ל�"�"�"ים (amaze, appal, appall, astound, bewilder, bowl over, dumbfound, flabbergast, perplex, shock, stagger, stun, stupefy). (various references)

Hungarian

meghökkent (abashed, amaze, astound, be taken aback, bowl over, bushed, dumbfounded, dumfounded, flabbergasted, flummox, knock, nonplus, nonplussed, perplex, perplexed, thunderstruck, to abash, to amaze, to appal, to appall, to bowl over, to dumbfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to nonplus, to perplex, to sensationalize), megdöbbent (aghast, appall, astound, dismay, dumbfound, dumbfounded, flabbergast, flummox, stupefied, take aback, threw, thrown, thunderstruck, to appal, to appall, to dismay, to dumbfound, to dumfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to flurry, to petrify, to stupefy, to throw), ámulatba ejt (astound, to amaze, to carry sy off his feet, to sweep sy off his feet). (various references)

Indonesian

mengagumkan (amaze, amazing, astonishing, baffling), mempercengangkan (amaze, baffle, confound, perplex). (various references)

Italian

stupire (amaze, astound, be amazed, be astonished, bemuse, dumbfound), sorprendere (amaze, astound, be surprised, catch, overtake, surprise). (various references)

Korean 

경천동지하십시�". (various references)

Manx

thanvaanaghey. (various references)

Norwegian

forbause. (various references)

Pig Latin

astonishay.(various references)

Portuguese

aturdir (amaze, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, deafen, din, obfuscate, stun), assombrar (amaze, astound, bemuse, daze, haunt, petrify, stupefy, surprise), surpreender (amaze, astound, catch, come upon, daze, get hold of, overtake, startle, surprise, surprising, take by surprise), espantar (astound, daze, flabbergast, run wild, scare, surprise, whisk), embaraçar (abash, astound, blur, clog, cumber, derange, detain, dim, disconcert, embarrass, embroil, encumber, entangle, puzzle, quiz, straiten, trammel), confundir (addle, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distract, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, ravel, stagger). (various references)

Romanian

ului (amaze, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, flabbergast, flurry, stun), uimi (amaze, bedazzle, dazzle, flabbergast, flummox, stagger, stupefy, surprise), surprinde (catch, overhear, overtake, startle, surprise), minuna (wonder), buimãci (amaze, astound, bewilder, distract, dumbfound, flabbergast, flummox, horrify, stun, stupefy, surprise). (various references)

Russian 

удивлять (astonishes), изумлять (amaze, astound, bewilder, daze, flabbergast, stupefy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgranuti (amaze), zaprepastiti (appal, appall, dismay, horrify, shock, stagger), zadiviti (amaze), zabezeknuti, začuditi (amaze). (various references)

Spanish

sorprender (astound, catch, catch out, overtake, surprise), asombrar (amaze, appal, appall, astound, flabbergast, flummox, knock back, stagger, surprise). (various references)

Swedish

förvåna (amaze, be surprised, confound). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ประหลา�"ใจ (jolt). (various references)

Turkish

afallatmak (amaze, astound, confuse, daze, flabbergast, floor, flummox, stump, stun, stupefy), hayrete düşürmek (amaze, give smb. a tumble, nonplus), hayret ettirmek (amaze, astound, bewilder, dumbfound, dumfound, flabbergast, gravel, mystify, surprise, wow), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow). (various references)

Ukrainian

уражати (affect, afflict, astound, attack, nettle, petrify, strike), дивувати (amaze, astound, bewilder, buffalo, daze, enamor, enamour, flabbergast, stupefy, surprise). (various references)

Welsh

synnu (amaze, astound, be amazed, be surprised, marvel, surprise). (various references)

defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, ex-. (various references)

estoner. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "astonish": astonished, astonishes, astonishing, astonishingly, astonishment, astonishments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Astonish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asstones, astonishm, astounish, atonish, attonish, Ausonius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: shantis, stonish.

-2 letters: hoists, hostas, saints, santos, satins, shanti, shoats, snaths, stains, tonish.

-3 letters: antis, hants, hints, hists, hoist, hosta, hosts, iotas, oasis, oasts, oaths, ohias, ossia, ostia, sains, saint, saith, santo, sasin, satin, satis, shins, shist, shoat, shots, sinhs, snash, snath, snits, snots, soths, stain, stash, stoai, stoas, tains, thins.

-4 letters: ains, aits.

+1 letter: chitosans.

+2 letters: astonished, astonishes, hailstones, historians, sainthoods, senhoritas, stanchions.

+3 letters: astonishing, exhaustions, hesitations, housetrains, macintoshes, monarchists, saxophonist, senatorship, soothsaying, standoffish, stephanotis, throatiness.

+4 letters: abolishments, anorthosites, anthologists, antifashions, antistrophes, astonishment, autohypnosis, chrismations, harmonicists, inchoateness, mackintoshes, misanthropes, nonhospitals, pathogenesis, prognathisms, saxophonists, senatorships, snapshotting, soothsayings, sycophantish, sycophantism, synarthrosis, taphonomists.

+5 letters: admonishments, airworthiness, asphyxiations, astonishingly, astonishments, atherogenesis, attorneyships, crosshatching, custodianship, cytochalasins, hospitalising, housepainters, misanthropies, prehistorians, relationships, rhinoplasties, sansculottish, seaworthiness, sharpshooting, sportsmanship, standoffishly, stenographies, stephanotises, strophanthins, sycophantisms, throatinesses, trapshootings, vibraphonists.