STUN

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

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.
v.

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

4.
n.

The condition of being stunned.


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