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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
amazement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in horror/amazement etc
▪ He watched in horror as the flames engulfed his house.
stare in disbelief/horror/amazement etc
▪ Hilary stared in disbelief at the kitchen clock.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
express
▪ And when she gave birth to an eight-pound baby boy the whole family expressed amazement at such a miracle.
▪ Those who knew me best at that time expressed amazement at how little confidence I had in myself.
▪ When the regression was over, Sylvia expressed amazement at what had been revealed.
look
▪ He looked in amazement at his watch.
▪ Dudley Williams, veteran that he was, looked on in amazement from the sidelines.
▪ Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket, pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement.
▪ Joe and Rex looked up in amazement.
▪ Penelope Huntley looked at him in amazement, with dawning understanding.
stare
▪ Willie stared in amazement at the fields, his thin woollen socks heaped around his ankles.
▪ Other excitements took their place but I was more inclined to stare at them in amazement than paint them.
▪ Withel stared at him in amazement for a moment, and then quietly toppled into the mud.
▪ He stared at her in amazement.
▪ Suddenly I stopped and stood still, staring in amazement.
▪ Two fishermen stopped work to stand and stare in amazement.
▪ Father Poole stared at him in amazement.
watch
▪ Oliver followed behind them, watching in silent amazement.
▪ As I watched in amazement, the partner gazed over her shoulder and gave me a big, mocking, self-satisfied wink.
▪ I watched with growing amazement a succession of beautiful old pieces of furniture go into the cottage.
▪ Karen watched in puzzled amazement as he dropped the thing into the wastepaper basket.
▪ Dyson watched them all with amazement.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fans looked on in amazement as Robbins missed a third goal for the team.
▪ Nina looked at me with amazement. "I don't believe you," she said.
▪ To our amazement, when we returned to China, the Moso tree had grown an impressive ninety feet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He remembers thinking in amazement that his name also was being flashed on screens in thousands of other movie theaters.
▪ Jinny saw Oz gaping in amazement and she kicked his foot.
▪ She frowned, and checked again, her eyes widening in amazement.
▪ They had chatted fairly amicably over coffee in the lounge, much to Paige's amazement.
▪ To my amazement, it was just about as easy and even more fun than writing about real events.
▪ To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
▪ Willie stared in amazement at the fields, his thin woollen socks heaped around his ankles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amazement

Amazement \A*maze"ment\, n.

  1. The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.

    His words impression left Of much amazement.
    --Milton.

  2. Frenzy; madness. [Obs.]
    --Webster (1661).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
amazement

1590s, "mental stupefaction," early use of the Latin suffix with a native verb, from amaze + -ment. Meaning "overwhelming wonder" is c.1600.

Wiktionary
amazement

n. (context uncountable English) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.

WordNet
amazement

n. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising; "he looked at me in astonishment" [syn: astonishment]

Usage examples of "amazement".

I had lost the capacity for amazement when I realised that these strange quiverings on the tips of the cervix and even well past it were caused by incredibly long but thin tongues.

I have explained microscopes, to his fresh amazement that we ever built such instruments.

In the white he lifted the child off her feet, knowing that she would stop short in amazement, lest he run over her.

He kissed her warmly then and kept to himself the amazement her words had engendered.

He lost his footing on the brown floor and fell, pulling her down with him, discovering to his amazement that this floor was soft as a bed.

He felt strange touches within his body and a rising sexual thrall, along with amazement that he could have so forgot this as to hesitate in raising her from the tank.

I felt very weak, and in the weakness lost something of the amazement at what had occurred.

He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.

We all looked on with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone.

When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old.

Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.

And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.

Then, as he stood with an expression of passive amazement on his face, the rapid feet came to the door of the dressing-room and that too was locked.

I heard a clashing concussion and was hit violently behind, and turning saw a man carrying a basket of soda-water syphons, and looking in amazement at his burden.

That time he actually touched me, jumped back with amazement and stood astonished in the middle of the room.