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aghast

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aghast /əˈgɑːst/

▶adjective filled with horror or shock.

– origin ME: past part. of the obs. verb agast, gast ‘frighten’, from OE gǣsten.

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