verb
- Affect with wonder.
- usage: "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me"
- Be a mystery or bewildering to.
- usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
adjective
- Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
- usage: "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
- synonyms: astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned
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