Definition of Astonish

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Astonish

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.

To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.

Related Definitions:

Amaze, As, Blow, By, Confound, Emotion, Fear, Greatly, Or, Passion, Render, Senseless, Some, Something, Strike, Stun, Sudden, Surprise, Terror, To, Unaccountable, With, Wonder

Astonish Quotations

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Paul Cezanne

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
David Blaine

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Garet Garrett

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Terry Southern

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Miriam Beard

Astonish Translations

astonish in Italian is sorprendere, stupirsi, sorprendere, stupire
astonish in Norwegian is forbause
astonish in Spanish is asombro, sorprender, asombrar

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