transitive. To startle, frighten, astound. Chiefly in passive participle gloppened.

transitive (in passive). To be surprised, disconcerted, discomfited, upset. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To amaze, astonish. Only impersonal and in passive.

transitive. To astonish greatly. (Only in past participle.)

transitive. To affect (a person) with surprise; = surprise, v. 5a.

transitive. To stun mentally, shock, surprise. = astonish, v. 2–4.

transitive. To surprise.

figurative. To bewilder, perplex, nonplus; to render helpless by a shock of amazement (or occasionally horror). In passive, to be perplexed or…

(transitive) (a) to strike with or as with a thunderbolt; to astonish, amaze, or terrify; (b) to hurl or dart like a thunderbolt.

transitive. To cause (a person) to feel wonder, astonishment, or surprise. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To cause (a person or animal) to undergo a sudden involuntary movement of the body, through surprise, alarm, etc.; to surprise greatly…

figurative. To strike as with ‘thunder’. To strike with amazement, astonish greatly. Obsolete except as in thunderstricken, thunderstruck.

transitive. To blast or strike, as with lightning; to afflict with paralysis or other sudden physical disorder. In extended use: to seize with…

transitive. To strike dumb; to confound, confuse; to nonplus.

To affect with the characteristic emotion caused by something unexpected; to excite to wonder by being unlooked-for. †Formerly also in stronger sense…

transitive. To nonplus; = stagger, v. 7. Obsolete.

To surprise.

To startle.

= dumbfound, v.

figurative. To strike with astonishment, alarm, or confusion; to confound; to ‘floor’. Obsolete. colloquial.

transitive (chiefly in passive). To surprise, to shock; to discomfit.

transitive. To put (a person) in such confusion that he does not for the moment know what to do or say; to astonish utterly, to confound.

transitive (chiefly in passive). To surprise, to shock; to discomfit; = to take aback 2 at phrasal verbs 1.

To astonish, stagger. dialect and U.S.

transitive. To take aback, to put out. Usually in passive.

intransitive. to make (a person) sit up: to astonish, startle, or have a powerful effect on (a person).

The proper adjective expressing a well-known quality of the air or of other substances exciting one of… said of the human body when deprived of…

To astonish utterly, confound. dialect.

transitive. figurative. To cause to be emotionally or psychologically shaken; to render bewildered or distressed; to shock; to perturb; to…

to flip out intransitive, to lose control (originally under the influence of drugs); to go wild or crazy. Also transitive, to induce anger or a…