Dictionary Definition
stun
Verb
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]
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)]stunned
See stun
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English
Pronunciation
Translations
- Finnish: tyrmätty, pökertynyt
Verb
stunned- past tense of to stun
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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