Stunned

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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["o]hnen, Icel.
     stynja, Gr. ?, Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from
     the same source as E. astonish. [root]168.]
     1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render


        senseless by a blow, as on the head.
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              One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
              And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden.
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     2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
        especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
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              And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
                                                    --Pope.
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     3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
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              William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stunned
       See {stun}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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