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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
astonish .
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Examples
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“That you can still call me ‘Father’ without choking on the word astonishes me,” H’druhn said, bitterly.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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“That you can still call me ‘Father’ without choking on the word astonishes me,” H’druhn said, bitterly.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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“That you can still call me ‘Father’ without choking on the word astonishes me,” H’druhn said, bitterly.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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What astonishes is not that the result falls short of perfection, but that any part of the job gets done at all.
Andrew Bacevich: The Long War: Year Ten Lost in the Desert with the GPS on the Fritz Andrew Bacevich 2010
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There are, in those restaurants, as there are in public gardens and railway trains, people embodied in a quite ordinary appearance, whose name astonishes us when, having happened to ask it, we discover that this is not the mere inoffensive stranger whom we supposed but nothing less than the Minister or Duke of whom we have so often heard.
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It just astonishes me that anyone at Paramount could actually watch 'Generations' or 'Insurrection' and CONTINUE ALLOWING RICK BERMAN TO MAKE MOVIES.
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What astonishes me is that so many folks are willing to deny the mere possibility that a person is racist for entirely partisan reasons.
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The place looks rustic and a bit weird, however it is an amazing structure that astonishes the beholder and makes one think nothing is impossible.
Largest Solar Powered Building in the World Unveiled in China 2009
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So it degenerates into a species of word-juggleery that at first astonishes by its unexpectedness, then pleases by its dexterity, and finally offends by reason if its misplaced ingenuity.
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So it degenerates into a species of word-juggleery that at first astonishes by its unexpectedness, then pleases by its dexterity, and finally offends by reason if its misplaced ingenuity.
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