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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stun \stun\, v. t. imp. p. p. stunned; p. pr. vb. n.
stunning. oe. stonien, stownien; either fr. as. stunian
to resound cf. d. stenen to groan, g. st"ohnen, icel.
stynja, gr. ?, skr. stan to thunder, and e. thunder, or from
the same source as e. astonish. root168.
1. to make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render
senseless by a blow, as on the head.
1913 webster
one hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
and one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --dryden.
1913 webster
2. to dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
1913 webster
and stunned him with the music of the spheres.
--pope.
1913 webster
3. to astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
1913 webster
william was quite stunned at my discourse. --de foe.
1913 webster
see also:
stunned stunning
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stun
v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
syn: stupefy
2: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "i was floored
when i heard that i was promoted" syn: shock, floor,
ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
3: hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag syn: sandbag
4: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "the news
stunned her" syn: bedaze, daze
also: stunning, stunned
see also:
stupefy shock floor ball over blow out of the water take aback
sandbag bedaze daze stunning stunned
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stunned
adj 1: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or
shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a
standing ovation"; "i stood enthralled, astonished by
the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded
viewers wept at the pictures from the oklahoma city
bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned
scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded
2: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow syn: knocked outp,
kayoed, ko'd, outp
3: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
semiconscious, stunned or stupefied by the blow"; "was
stupid from fatigue" syn: dazed, stupefied, stupidp
see also:
amazed astonied astonished astounded knocked outp kayoed
ko'd outp dazed stupefied stupidp
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stunned
see stun
see also:
stun
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 moby thesaurus words for "stunned":
aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck,
blanched, cowed, dazed, deadly pale, deaf, deaf and dumb,
deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dull-eared, earless, frozen,
gray with fear, hard of hearing, horrified, horror-struck,
intimidated, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified,
scared stiff, scared to death, stone-deaf, stupefied, surd,
terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden,
terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck,
terror-troubled, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, undone, unhearing,
unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, word-deaf
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