Both Uses
aghast
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
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- With faces aghast, the four children gaped at the man, and then at one another, for they saw at once that Mr. Curtain was Mr. Benedict himself.†
p. 176.8 *aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
- "I may not know when the Cenozoic Era was —" Sticky was aghast.†
p. 391.9
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)