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Past tense of astound

regular verb

The past tense of astound is astounded. The past participle is also astounded.

Forms of astound

Base form (V1)astound /əˈstaʊnd/
Past tense (V2)astounded
Past participle (V3)astounded
Present participleastounding /əˈstaʊndɪŋ/
Third person singularastounds

Astounded in a sentence

  • I was astounded by her magnanimousness: she had clearly forgiven him for everything that had happened.From the entry magnanimousness
  • The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness.From the entry footwork
  • “I had friends who had known me many, many years who are totally astounded, shocked,” she said.2014, Arlene Stein, Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry out
  • The Anglo audience was sitting stunned, literally with open jaws, totally astounded, uncomprehending.1998, Louise Cripps, “If Puerto Rico Became the 51st State from the Island Viewpoint”, in Should Puerto Rico Become the 51st State?…. From the entry uncomprehendedly
  • Jill was the ideally astoundable friend—she got astounded, but she stood her ground.1988, Richard P. Brickner, After She Left, New York: Henry Holt, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 84. From the entry astoundable

Meaning of astound

  1. verb To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
  2. adjective Stunned; astounded; astonished.

Full definition of astound

Questions about the past tense of astound

What is the past tense of astound?
The past tense of astound is astounded.
What is the past participle of astound?
The past participle of astound is astounded.
Is astound a regular or irregular verb?
Astound is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: astound (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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