dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid
(adjective) 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”
amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned
(adjective) 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”
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
stunned (comparative more stunned, superlative most stunned)
Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.
stunned
simple past tense and past participle of stun
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 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
