astonished, shocked; astounded; totally amazed; filled with emotional effect of strong surprise or shock; knocked out; knocked unconscious by a hard hit or strike
shock; astonish, astound; stupefy, daze
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Stunned Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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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) ]
1. in complete bewilderment or astonishment; 2. in a state of inertia
one's mind is off, thinking about something else, dazed
Adjective
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"
(synonym) amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded
(similar) surprised
2. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
(synonym) knocked out(p), kayoed, KO'd, out(p)
(similar) unconscious
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"
(synonym) dazed, stupefied, stupid(p)
(similar) confused
Verb
1. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
(synonym) stupefy
(hypernym) immobilize, immobilise
2. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
(synonym) shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
(hypernym) surprise
(hyponym) startle, galvanize, galvanise
(derivation) stunner
3. hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
(synonym) sandbag
(hypernym) hit
4. overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
(synonym) bedaze, daze
(hypernym) desensitize, desensitise
(derivation) smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish
Stunned Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Stunning is the process of rendering animals immobile or unconscious, without killing the animal, prior to their being slaughtered for food.
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