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After this he went on to become one of the world’s greatest warriors and the founder of an empire whose progressiveness, reach, and might would astound poets, writers, travelers, historians, and archaeologists for centuries to come.

From Quartz

The fact that they’re not applying that retroactively to people who’ve already been sentenced astounds me.

From Vox

Imaginative and inspired, Spirited Away immerses the viewer in a fantastical world that at once astounds and alarms.

From Time

Our planet was very different 100,000 years ago, and if we could survey that time, we would be astounded by the human diversity across its surface.

While the Switch doesn’t push polygons like its competitors, it still manages to use innovative design choices to present graphic art that can astound, immerse, and enthrall.

But it continues to astound me that there are troves of archives that have not been looked at.

The depth of rage, animus and violence that was directed at him—“Spittle flying, the N word flying”—continues to astound him.

In the first years of his frolicking life he loved also to astound Rome, and succeeded a number of times.

Yet she was a rare enough exception to astound my abstracted mind.

You rather astound me with respect to value of grounds of generalisation in the morphology of plants.

In it there appeared volunteer troops to astound seasoned veterans by their dash and discipline.

Master Mather is to bring his feathers to show the Governor, and to astound the Governor's skeptical wife.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to astound, such as: astonish, bewilder, confound, confuse, dumbfound, and flabbergast.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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