thunderstruck

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈθʌn.də.stɹʌk/
• (America) IPA: /ˈθʌn.dɚ.stɹʌk/

Adjective

thunderstruck

1. Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 856-858,^{[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_VI]}

     The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Heard

     Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd

     Drove them before him Thunder-struck,

   • 1927-29 — Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Fast, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

     'Unless the strikers rally,' I declared to the meeting, 'and continue the strike till a settlement is reached, or till they leave the mills altogether, I will not touch any food.' The labourers were thunderstruck.

Synonyms

• (astonished) amazed, astonished, astounded, awed, overawed, overwhelmed, speechless, stupefied, surprised

Translations

• French: stupéfié, abasourdi
• German: wie vom Donner gerührt
• Spanish: estupefacto

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