Astound vs Astonishment - What's the difference?
astound | astonishment |
amazement, great surprise
An amazing thing or phenomenon.
* 1964:
As a verb astound
is to astonish, bewilder or dazzle.As an adjective astound
is (obsolete) stunned; astounded; astonished.As a noun astonishment is
amazement, great surprise.astonishment
English
Noun
- Everything he had seen so far--the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself--had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be anymore astonishments left.