Crossword clues for aghast
aghast
- Horrified, shocked
- Horrified! Part of bag has torn!
- Horrified windbag has taken sandwiches
- Postbag has Theresa somewhat horrified
- Have a course executed
- Deeply dismayed
- White as a sheet
- Taken aback
- Displaying shock
- Struck with fear
- Filled with fright
- Struck with consternation
- Struck with amazement
- Struck by shock
- Filled with sudden fright
- Stunned and speechless
- Struck by overwhelming shock
- Speechless, say
- Shocked & horrified
- Overcome with shock
- More than taken aback
- Filled with dismay
- Far beyond disappointed
- Beyond shocked
- Horrified
- Shocked ... shocked!
- In shock
- Thunderstruck
- Shocked and awed
- Consternated
- Totally shaken
- Terror-struck
- Rendered speechless
- Left open-mouthed, say
- More than surprised
- All shook up
- Awfully awed
- Appalled
- Amazed
- Very unhappy
- Chief at heart persistently stunned
- Earliest of settlers in a mountain range in India, speechless
- Some fleabag has them horrified
- Shocked by long story about time injecting heroin
- Shocked by a nameless author having a heart transplant
- Filled with horror
- Horror-struck scallywag has turned to bottle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aghast \A*ghast"\, v. t. See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]
Aghast \A*ghast"\, a. & p. p. [OE. agast, agasted, p. p. of agasten to terrify, fr. AS. pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + g?stan to terrify, torment: cf. Goth. usgaisjan to terrify, primitively to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See Gaze, Hesitate.] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed,
Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread.
--Dryden.
The commissioners read and stood aghast.
--Macaulay.
Agast \A*gast"\ or Aghast \A*ghast"\, v. t.
To affright; to terrify. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, agast, "terrified," past participle of Middle English agasten "to frighten" (c.1200), from a- intensive prefix + Old English gæstan "to terrify," from gæst "spirit, ghost" (see ghost). The -gh- spelling appeared early 15c. in Scottish and is possibly a Flemish influence, or after ghost, etc. It became general after 1700.
Wiktionary
a. terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
WordNet
Usage examples of "aghast".
Saint stood unflinchingly, Amity clinging aghast to his arm, Warlock lifted the record and went through the dramatic gesture of smashing it against the corner of the phonograph.
Quin, aghast, heard the words of Basher Somerville come out of his own mouth.
A Sea Folk woman stared back at her, aghast, with a dozen begemmed rings in her ears and twice as many golden medallions dangling from the chain running to her nose ring.
I started back, aghast, and cried out that it was magic, for I recognised the whole scene--it was one which had actually occurred.
Killer Durgan stood aghast as Madge fell to the floor, mortally wounded!
English wood, had been suddenly stricken aghast by the presence of the slimy and loathsome terror of the ichthyosaurus, the original of the stories of the awful worms killed by valourous knights, or had seen the sun darkened by the pterodactyl, the dragon of tradition.
At first Leicester, Burleigh and those who rejoiced that the menace was removed were aghast until they realized that she had no intention of being foolish and was merely placating her enemies.
The skian dhu caught one of them from behind in the heart ribs and the second looked up aghast to hear words he did not understand spat at him by a red-haired, white-faced devil.
August Analog has left me somewhat aghast and very disappointed in your apparent lack of scientific objectivity.
From the corner of his eye, he saw Batty looking aghast, puckered mouth dropped, shaking his small head.
They stared, aghast, at Ryder as he advanced on them brandishing his club.
He may dream of a beautiful and complaisant mistress, less exigent and mercurial than any a bachelor may hope to discover--and stand aghast at admitting her to his bank-book, his family-tree and his secret ambitions.
As the sleep-walker waked with pain, White-clothed in the midnight blast, Doth stare and quake, and stride again To houseward all aghast.
Marquis got the same aghast, cringing, yet fascinated look that all men did whenever the topic of lithotomy arose in conversation.
Cam asked, aghast, as her sister opened the spice jar and sprinkled a sloppy circle of marjoram flakes onto the clean floor.