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Our cabby told us about an astonished couple preparing to get their daughter from her car seat when a baboon popped into the back, grabbed the baby bottle, chugged it, and then gave it back to the baby.
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At $424, things were looking up a bit, though most of the world was still astonished people would pay that much for a digital currency.
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First Known Use of astonished
1716
astonished Synonyms
Synonyms
amazed, astounded, awestruck (also awestricken), bowled over, dumbfounded (also dumfounded), dumbstruck, flabbergasted, shocked, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck;
Near Antonyms
blasé (also blase), casual, nonchalant, unruffled;
Related Words
blindsided, startled, surprised (also surprized);
aghast, appalled, dismayed, horrified;
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