Both Uses
aghast
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- If I trembled at the blast which has hitherto attended us, shall I not stand aghast at a warring of wind and ocean, to convey any idea of which the words tornado and simoom are trivial and ineffective?†
*aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
- And then the brush was given, and then the tint was placed; and, for one moment, the painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought; but in the next, while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life itself!' turned suddenly to regard his beloved:—She was dead!†
Definitions:
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(1)
(aghast) shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay (sadness, disappointment, or worry)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)