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verb

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."

noun

Stun n. The condition of being stunned.

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Etymology of 'Stun'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stun" Quotes from Famous Books

... voice was strong, the tremor had left her hands. She had expected something like this, of course; yet when it came—somehow it failed to stun. She would not turn over the direction of the school, or the direction of the education of these people, to those who were most opposed to their education. Therefore, there was no need to hesitate; there ...

— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois

... men, now in peaceful show, And greet your sons! drums beat and trumpets blow! Make merry, wives! ye little children stun Your grandames ears with pleasure ...

— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston

... has got a mind equal to any undertaking that he puts it alongside of, and as was all but smashed in his 'prenticeship, and of which the name is Bunsby, that 'ere man shall give him such an opinion in his own parlour as'll stun him. Ah!' said Captain Cuttle, vauntingly, 'as much as if he'd gone and knocked ...

— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens

... Mrs. Zeisberger. On deck one man was knocked down by another, striking his head on the deck so as to stun him. In the evening we held our song service at the same hour that the English had theirs. I spoke with Mr. Oglethorpe and the two English clergymen, who asked concerning our ordination and our faith. Mr. Oglethorpe said he would be as ...

— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries

... the right quantity of all these to a nicety, but appearances were against her. She was a woman of the type that must have been recognised in its girlhood as stunning, or ripping, by the then frequenters of the bar of The Pigeons, and which now was reluctant to admit that its powers to rip or stun were on the wane at forty. It was that of an inflamed blonde putting on flesh, which meant to have business relations with dropsy later on, unless—which seemed unlikely—its owner should discontinue her present one with those nips and cordials. She had no misgivings, so ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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