Synonyms:
amaze, astonish, astound
Meaning: affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
Usage examples
The attitude of this guilty man, whose life he held in his hands, was enough to astonish him.
And now Simon, thinking he might be able to astonish and elude the Romans, put on a white frock, and buttoned upon him a purple cloak, and appeared out of the ground in the place where the temple had formerly been.
He had never danced like that in Moscow and would even have considered such a very free and easy manner improper and in bad form, but here he felt it incumbent on him to astonish them all by something unusual, something they would have to accept as the regular thing in the capital though new to them in the provinces.