stunned

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)}]
    

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.
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            One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
            And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden.
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   2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
      especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
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            And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
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            William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
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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