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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, stunned]
    2: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn: knocked out(p),
       kayoed, KO'd, out(p), stunned]
    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, stunned, stupefied,
       stupid(p)]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stun \Stun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Stunning.] [OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian
   to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. st["o]hnen, Icel.
   stynja, Gr. ?, Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from
   the same source as E. astonish. [root]168.]
   1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render
      senseless by a blow, as on the head.
      [1913 Webster]

            One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
            And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
      especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
      [1913 Webster]

            And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
                                                  --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
      [1913 Webster]

            William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for stunned:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, cowed, dazed, deadly pale, deaf, deaf and dumb, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dull-eared, earless, frozen, gray with fear, hard of hearing, horrified, horror-struck, intimidated, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, scared stiff, scared to death, stone-deaf, stupefied, surd, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, undone, unhearing, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, word-deaf
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