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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock;
- Example: "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"
- Example: "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"
- Example: "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"
- Example: "stood in stunned silence"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "he had a dazed expression on his face"
- Example: "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"
- Example: "was stupid from fatigue"
[syn: dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid(p)]



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

            William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
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WordNet (r) 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)]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "stunned":
   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