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   astonish

   /əˈstɒnɪʃ/

   verb

   • 1. surprise or impress (someone) greatly: "you never fail to astonish me"

   Word Origin early 16th century (as astonished, in the sense ‘stunned, bewildered, dismayed’): from obsolete astone ‘stun, stupefy’, from Old French estoner, based on Latin ex- ‘out’ + tonare ‘to thunder’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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