I was aghast
I was shocked
TRANSLATION
aghast = bestürzt, entgeistert, entsetzt I was aghast = ich war entsetzt
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
London aghast at President Obama over gifts given to Prime Minister Brown
Daily News Headline, March 7th 2009
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When I arrived at my store just before daybreak, I WAS AGHAST at the scene. All my front windows were smashed in, including the front door.
(www.mudoven.com)
Daily News Headline, March 7th 2009
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When I arrived at my store just before daybreak, I WAS AGHAST at the scene. All my front windows were smashed in, including the front door.
(www.mudoven.com)
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WORD ORIGIN
Aghast (circa 1260) formed from agast (terrified), the past participle of the Middle English agasten (to frighten) and from the Old English gæstan (to terrify) and gæst (spirit or ghost). The -gh- spelling appeared around 1425 in Scottish and is possibly a Flemish influence. Also related to the German "Geist," meaning spirit or mind.
It may be hard to believe, but the parents of the world's richest man (as of March 2008) were once "aghast" at their child. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet says he had no interest in school. Instead, he and friends went to the local Sears department store and stole sporting goods.
"We’d just steal the place blind. We’d steal stuff for which we had no use. We’d steal golf bags and golf clubs and hundreds of golf balls. I told my parents that I had this friend, and his father had died. He kept finding more of these golf balls that his father had bought. I don't know if my parents believed the story or not."
Buffet said his parents were aghast, because by the end of 1944 their gifted child had become a school delinquent. "My bad grades in school were a quantification of my unhappiness. The less I interacted with teachers, the better it was. They actually put me in a room by myself there for a while where they would kind of shove my lessons under the door…"
Buffet learned other lessons and in the process amassed one of the world's largest fortunes, much of which he now uses for charitable purposes.
(source: Financial Times)
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SYNONYMS
agape, agog, alarmed, appalled, astonished, astounded, awestruck, confounded, dumbfounded, frightened, horrified, horror-struck, overwhelmed, shocked, startled, stunned, terrified, thunderstruck
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I was aghast when I saw how much the garage wanted to charge for repairing my car."
Aghast (circa 1260) formed from agast (terrified), the past participle of the Middle English agasten (to frighten) and from the Old English gæstan (to terrify) and gæst (spirit or ghost). The -gh- spelling appeared around 1425 in Scottish and is possibly a Flemish influence. Also related to the German "Geist," meaning spirit or mind.
It may be hard to believe, but the parents of the world's richest man (as of March 2008) were once "aghast" at their child. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet says he had no interest in school. Instead, he and friends went to the local Sears department store and stole sporting goods.
"We’d just steal the place blind. We’d steal stuff for which we had no use. We’d steal golf bags and golf clubs and hundreds of golf balls. I told my parents that I had this friend, and his father had died. He kept finding more of these golf balls that his father had bought. I don't know if my parents believed the story or not."
Buffet said his parents were aghast, because by the end of 1944 their gifted child had become a school delinquent. "My bad grades in school were a quantification of my unhappiness. The less I interacted with teachers, the better it was. They actually put me in a room by myself there for a while where they would kind of shove my lessons under the door…"
Buffet learned other lessons and in the process amassed one of the world's largest fortunes, much of which he now uses for charitable purposes.
(source: Financial Times)
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SYNONYMS
agape, agog, alarmed, appalled, astonished, astounded, awestruck, confounded, dumbfounded, frightened, horrified, horror-struck, overwhelmed, shocked, startled, stunned, terrified, thunderstruck
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I was aghast when I saw how much the garage wanted to charge for repairing my car."
