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verb

Astound v. t. (past & past part. astounded, obs. astound; pres. part. astounding)

To stun; to stupefy. "No puissant stroke his senses once astound."

To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. "These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind."

adjective

Astounding adj. Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact.

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Etymology of 'Astounding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Astounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... these men with his own energy and restlessness; the spirit of the whole establishment automatically became that of the pushing spirit of its head. This little giant became the most remorseless pace-maker in the steel regions. However astounding might be the results obtained by the Carnegie works the captain at the head was never satisfied. As each month's output surpassed that which had gone before, Carnegie always came back with the same cry of "More." "We broke ...

— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick

... a laugh. "Nothing, but that Downing Street has turned into Parnassus. The astounding fact is, that Grenville has teemed, and, as the fruits of the long vacation, has produced a ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various

... Cuckoo, crude and garbled, yet true gospel. The doctor was completely puzzled. All he gathered from this announcement was that Valentine seemed in some way to have been confiding in this girl of the streets. Such a fact was sufficiently astounding. That they should ever have been associated together in any way was almost incredible to any one who knew Valentine. Yet it was quite obvious that they did know each other, and ...

— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens

... "By an astounding coincidence, the sun has risen," cried out Buck, with a savage air of patience. "Why the hell aren't we holding all those approaches now, and passing in on them again? It should have been done at sunrise. The confounded ...

— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... longer counts. Be ye as fleet as Rosenthal and as pure as Pachmann—in a tonal sense—ye will not escape comparison with the mechanical pianist. It was their astounding accuracy that extorted from Eugen d'Albert a confession made to a friend of mine just before he sailed to this country ...

— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker

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