STUNNED

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

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

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Adjective

stunned (comparative more stunned, superlative most stunned)

Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

Verb

stunned

simple past tense and past participle of stun

Source: Wiktionary

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STUN

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

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