stun, stupefy
(verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; “stun fish”
sandbag, stun
(verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
stun, bedaze, daze
(verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; “The news stunned her”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)
(transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
(transitive) To shock or surprise.
(snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball
stun (countable and uncountable, plural stuns)
The condition of being stunned.
That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
(Newfoundland) A person who lacks intelligence.
(billiard, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
• NUTS, nuts, tsun, tuns
Source: Wiktionary
Stun, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.] Etym: [OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. stöhnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. *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.
Stun, n.
Definition: The condition of being stunned.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 February 2025
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
