astonished
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 →
2) (verb, past) Surprised someone very much: «The news astonished us.» tree →
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 →
- We were astonished by the size of the dinosaur skeleton. tree →
- Mum was astonished when I tidied my room without being asked. tree →
- The crowd stared, astonished, at the magician. tree →
- The Mole was astonished by the river. tree →
- The results of the experiment astonished the class. tree →
- "I am astonished also!" said the General. tree →
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.
- And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye exceeding amazed, saith the LORD.
- And Edom shall become an astonishment; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «astonished» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.