Definition of "astonishes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astonish. (verb)

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• "“That you can still call me ‘Father’ without choking on the word astonishes me,” H’druhn said, bitterly."
• "What astonishes is not that the result falls short of perfection, but that any part of the job gets done at all."
• "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."