Verb
To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.
To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDo the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Milan Kundera
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. Diana Wynne Jones
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world. James Buchanan
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. Clive James