[əˈstɒnɪʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- surprise or impress (someone) greatly
(e.g: you never fail to astonish me)


Phrases:

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’