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Stun v. t. (past & past part. stunned; pres. part. stunning)

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."

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."

To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. "William was quite stunned at my discourse."

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"Stunned" Quotes from Famous Books

... being over, comes his boy and tells us [Sir] W. Coventry is come in, and so he and I to him, and there told the difficulty of getting this money, and they did play hard upon Sir G. Carteret as a man moped and stunned, not knowing which way to turn himself. Sir W. Coventry cried that he was disheartened, and I do think that there is much in it, but Sir J. Duncomb do charge him with mighty neglect in the pursuing ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... were stunned with this declaration, made to them at a time when they pretended to think the right of complaining to be on their side, and had come to the bishop upon that errand. But after their surprise was abated, and Buys's long reasonings at an end, they began to think how matters ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift

... stunned Sanders, but I insisted that if old man Don was there, he would make him take something. He picked a good horse out of my mount and stayed until morning, when he was compelled to return, as the ...

— The Outlet • Andy Adams

... I noticed a lump o' rock had fallen out o' the roof. It'll be thought he was stunned by it, an' drowned in the water ...

— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson

... literally stunned. Instead of trying to say what I had in my mind and to force her to listen, I slunk away, in the rain, ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

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