STUN DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
stun v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy] 2: hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: sandbag, stun] 3: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her" [syn: stun, bedaze, daze] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) stun I. transitive verb (stunned; stunning) Etymology: Middle English stonen, stunen, from Anglo-French estoner — more at astonish Date: 14th century 1. to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow ; daze 2. to shock with noise 3. to overcome especially with paralyzing astonishment or disbelief II. noun Date: 1727 the effect of something that stuns ; shock Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary stun (stuns, stunning, stunned) 1. If you are stunned by something, you are extremely shocked or surprised by it and are therefore unable to speak or do anything. Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed • stunned When they told me she had gone missing I was totally stunned... ADJ 2. If something such as a blow on the head stuns you, it makes you unconscious or confused and unsteady. Sam stood his ground and got a blow that stunned him. VERB: V n 3. see also stunning English Explanatory Dictionary stun stʌn v.tr. (stunned, stunning) 1 knock senseless; stupefy. 2 bewilder or shock. 3 (of a sound) deafen temporarily. [ME f. OF estoner ASTONISH] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden. 2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. And stunned him with the music of the spheres. --Pope. 3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Stun \Stun\, n. The condition of being stunned. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms stun v. a. 1. Make senseless (by a blow), make dizzy. 2. Stupefy, confound, bewilder, overcome, dizzy, dumfound, astonish, overwhelm, over-power. 3. Deafen, make deaf. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) stun stʌn n. 1 daze, numb, benumb, knock out: I was stunned by an unexpected blow to the solar plexus. 2 astonish, daze, paralyse, stagger, stupefy, overcome, overwhelm, astound, jar, shock, jolt, strike dumb, amaze, confound, bewilder, take (someone's) breath away, Colloq shake up, bowl over, discombobulate, flabbergast: The children were stunned to hear that their mother had been arrested. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 94 Moby Thesaurus words for "stun": KO, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awake the dead, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blast, blast the ear, blunt, boggle, boom, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, coldcock, confound, crash, crescendo, daze, dazzle, deaden, deafen, desensitize, din, discombobulate, dope, drug, dull, dumbfound, dumbfounder, electrify, etherize, fill the air, flabbergast, freeze, frighten, horrify, jar, jolt, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, nonplus, numb, obtund, overcome, overwhelm, palsy, paralyze, peal, perplex, petrify, put to sleep, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, ring, rise, rock the sky, scare stiff, scare to death, shake, shake up, shock, split the eardrums, split the ears, stagger, startle, startle the echoes, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stupefy, surge, surprise, swell, take aback, terrify, thunder |
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