emmarvelv.
/ɛˈmɑːvɪl/ transitive. To fill with wonder.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)]
marvela1425
esmarvel1477
amaze?1533
wondera1561
bewondera1586
to hold at gaze1594
admire1598
wonder-maze1603
astonish1611
thunderstrike1613
surprise1655
to astonish the natives1801
emmarvel1834
zap1967
mind-blow1970
gobsmack1987
1834 Ld. Houghton Dream of Sappho They heard emmarvelled.
Derivatives
emmarvelled adj.
ΚΠ
1740 Gray Let. in Mason Memoirs (1807) I. 257 We are all enraptured and enmarvailed.
a1833 A. H. Hallam Remains in Verse & Prose (1834) 17 On that child's emmarvailed view.
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