What is the meaning of stunned?

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"
  • Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
  • 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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