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Stun v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.]
1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden.
2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
And stunned him with the music of the spheres. --Pope.
3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
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]
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 out(p),
kayoed, KO'd, out(p)]
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, stupid(p)]