verb
- Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
- usage: "stun fish"
- Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.
- Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief.
- usage: "The news stunned her"
adjective
- Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded
- Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
- synonyms: knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, out
- In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock.
- usage: "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"
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