Thunderstruck
WordNet
adjective
(1) As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
"A circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"
"The flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"
"Was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"
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Adjective
Quotations
- 1916 — G. K. Chesterton, The Crimes of England, chapter IX
- And for days Europe and the great powers were thunderstruck, again and yet again, by the news of Turkish forts falling, Turkish cohorts collapsing, the unconquerable Crescent going down in blood.
- 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.