Verb

• S: (v) amaze, astonish, astound (affect with wonder) "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) surprise (cause to be surprised) "The news really surprised me"
• S: (v) amaze, astonish, astound (affect with wonder) "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
• S: (v) explode a bombshell (utter or do something surprising) "Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom"
• S: (v) catch (discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state) "She caught her son eating candy"; "She was caught shoplifting"
• S: (v) flabbergast, boggle, bowl over (overcome with amazement) "This boggles the mind!"
• S: (v) shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback (surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off) "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound (be a mystery or bewildering to) "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"