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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUNNED, pp. Having the sense of hearing overpowered; confounded with noise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, stunned]
2: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn: knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, out, stunned]
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, stunned, stupefied, stupid]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see stun

Moby Thesaurus

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