aghast

aghast meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

Examples of aghast in a sentence

• And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.1902, Arthur Conan Doyle., The Hound of the Baskervilles:
• Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast.2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:
• Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
• For months, Democrats have watched aghast as President Donald Trump has unleashed his head-spinning, all-of-government brand of disruption.2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its...

All 21 example sentences with aghast

Forms of aghast

Origin of aghast

From Middle English agast, agasted, past participle of agasten (“to terrify”), from Old English a- (compare with Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan (“to terrify, torment”): compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”, literally “to fix, to root to the spot with terror”); akin to Latin haerere (“to stick fast, cling”). By surface analysis, a- + ghast/gast. See gaze.

Words formed from aghast

• aghastness
• unaghast

Words that rhyme with aghast

• gassed
• past
• miscast
• iconoclast
• vast
• brast
• classed
• clast
• gnast
• hast
• kast
• massed

Questions about aghast

What does aghast mean?

Aghast means terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

What is aghast in Hindi?

Aghast in Hindi is भौंचक्का (bha͠ucakkā). See Aghast meaning in Hindi.

How do you use aghast in a sentence?

And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.

What part of speech is aghast?

Aghast is an adjective.

How do you pronounce aghast?

Aghast is pronounced /əˈɡæst/ (US).