- present tense form of astound (3rd person singular).
astounds
Example Sentences
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For thyroids, mastoids and cervical lymph nodes, general gas anesthesia is best.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not a deadly disease as it was in 1917 but with children it had a tendency to go into the mastoids.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
The slenderness is especially noticeable in the breadth across the zygomata, mastoids, and rostrum.
From A New Pocket Gopher (Genus Thomomys) From Wyoming and Colorado by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Skull wide across zygomatic arches and narrow across mastoids; rostrum narrow and posterior border of palate straight.
From Geographic Variation in Red-backed Mice (Genus Clethrionomys) of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region by Cockrum, E. Lendell
The extremely large mastoids found in kangaroo rats suggest a connection in some way with special developments of the sense of hearing or of balance.
From Life History of the Kangaroo Rat by Vorhies, Charles Taylor
