The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise. / Something very surprising. / (obsolete) Loss of physical sensation; inability to move a part of the body.

To surprise greatly.

plural of astonishment

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astonish

present participle of astonish

Causing astonishment.

simple past tense and past participle of astonish

Amazed; surprised.

(obsolete) Astonishing. / Susceptible to being astonished; shockable.

Something that astonishes; an astonishing thing or event. / Someone who astonishes. / (typography, printing, computing, chiefly US) An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.