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stunned

verb (used with object)

to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.

to astonish; astound; amaze: Her wit stunned the audience.

to shock; overwhelm: The world was stunned by the attempted assassination.

to daze or bewilder by noise.

noun

the act of stunning.

the condition of being stunned.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English stonen, stunen (v.) < Old French estoner to shake, make resound; see astonish

Related forms

un·stunned, adjective

Synonyms
2, 3. See shock¹. 4. stupefy.

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Example Sentences

Then citizens were stunned to learn what had happened to the.

She even renamed a character by changing the spelling and was apparently stunned that readers noticed and cared.

But the scale of its defeat stunned even party diehards.

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Then citizens were stunned to learn what had happened to the.

She even renamed a character by changing the spelling and was apparently stunned that readers noticed and cared.

But the scale of its defeat stunned even party diehards.

Fifteen hundred people perished with her, a loss that stunned the world.

The researchers were particularly stunned by this activity in the planum temporale among the deaf.

The idea that two women in one neighborhood were addicted to a soft drink stunned me.

Joffe-Walt seem absolutely stunned that games convey something more redeeming than violent carnage.

Soto said she was stunned when she unrolled the landlord's notice stuck in her front door frame.

Most people in the student's department were stunned that she would request a change from a chair who was so widely respected.

The stunned youngster recalled something he had read in a book about witchcraft and issued a curse on his mother.

In fact, scientists are stunned at the area's recovery.

We leave our rooms to walk to the library and are stunned to walk into the darkness that catches us by surprise.

Saulter, the program manager for the free-electron laser, was momentarily stunned.

He was stunned by the fall and had his head cut open.

At first, stunned silence, but then a careful and engaged discussion.

Stunned by their fury, the government hastily scrapped the age limits.

On a hillside a half-mile away, saddened mourners and stunned citizens have gathered daily for three months.

France was stunned by the initial death toll estimates.

My freshmen are often stunned to learn that this is not how it's going to be.

The backlash against the big three main parties stunned politicians and commentators alike.

The stunned fish is then pulled into the sea anemone's hidden mouth.

In the mid-'80s, the film stunned audiences with a combination of cutting-edge visuals and in-theater special effects.

She was euthanised on the track, in front of a stunned crowd.

SuperCroc dragged the stunned creature into the water.

Her military doctors were stunned since her thrombophlebitis was probably caused by her pregnancy and desk job.

His audience of financiers and policy wonks was stunned.

Stunned parkgoers have even spotted the pythons in epic battles with native alligators.

Whoever has higher priority goes first, and then the other player can activate if they're not stunned.

Some governments have reached a compromise that allows for animals to be partly stunned before being killed.

The strike leaves its victim stunned for easier consumption.

The stunned villain is caught off guard and thrown off the front of an abruptly ending staircase.

He recalls the president's stunned disbelief when he told him that he could run up more debt than all his predecessors combined.

Though it started small, the eruption stunned scientists by quickly expanding to envelop much of the star.

It stunned the locals, who faithfully plug in their engine warmers each night.

Australia prescribes that cattle at home be stunned first, to render their slaughter painless.

After a moment of stunned quiet, tourists at the site busily snap pictures with cameras and cell phones.

She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she.

Horror so extreme that the people seemed stunned beyond tears'.

The survivors were so stunned with the appalling disaster that few could do anything for themselves or others.

The federal agents were stunned by the extent of it.

He was stunned at this woman's refusal to understand the simple idea of seperating them.

Even if they did they were so stunned they couldn't talk about or had gone mad somewhere inside the mazelike forest.

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Word Origin & History

stun

c.1300, "to daze or render unconscious" (from a blow, powerful emotion, etc.), probably aphetic of O.Fr. estoner "to stun" (see astonish). Stunning popularized for "splendid, excellent" c.1849.

Slang Dictionary

stunned definition

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. : Kelly was stunned and had to be carried home to recover.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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