verb
- Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.
- Be a mystery or bewildering to.
- usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
- usage: "stun fish"
adjective
- As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.
- usage: "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"
- synonyms: dumbfounded, dumfounded, flabbergasted, thunderstruck, dumbstruck, dumbstricken
- 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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