Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To daze or render senseless, as by a blow or loud noise.
- transitive verb To stupefy, as with the emotional impact of an experience; astound.
- noun A blow or shock that stupefies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stroke; a shock; a stupefying blow, whether physical or mental; a stunning effect.
- To strike the ears of rudely, as it were by blows of sound; shock the hearing or the sense of; stupefy or bewilder by distracting noise.
- To strike with stupor physically, as by a blow or violence of any kind; deprive, of consciousness or strength.
- To benumb; stupefy; deaden.
- To strike with astonishment; astound; amaze.
- In stone-cutting, to injure by blows; bruise, as a stone, in such a way that splinters will drop off when the surface is cut or exposed to frost.
- noun In marble-working, one of the deep marks made by coarse particles of sand gelling between the saw-blade and the side of the kerf.
- noun A patch on the surface of a block of stone where the material has been injured by a heavy blow. Compare
stun , transitive verb, 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
- transitive verb To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
- transitive verb To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
- noun The condition of being stunned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
incapacitate ; especially by inducingdisorientation orunconsciousness . - verb transitive To
shock orsurprise . - verb snooker, billiards To hit the
cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with theobject ball - noun The condition of being stunned.
- noun snooker, pool The effect on the
cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- verb overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
- verb hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American Anne-Marie Cusac 2010
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My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American Anne-Marie Cusac 2010
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My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American Anne-Marie Cusac 2010
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My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American Anne-Marie Cusac 2010
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My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
Anne-Marie Cusac: Torture Is American Anne-Marie Cusac 2010
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Stand straight, shoulders back, bitch-beams set to "stun" - for we are in the presence of Ms Joan Collins, who, as Alexis Colby-Carrington, committed murder while wearing a tam-o'-shanter, then proposed to a billionaire in a coma.
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I mean, who wouldn’t want electric Cinderella Shoes with a built-in stun gun?
A quiz with only one answer ewillett 2007
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Well, so-called stun grenades are supposed to confuse and disorient a potential threat.
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DE LA CRUZ: So-called stun grenades are supposed to confuse and disorient a potential threat, but why are they hurting the very authorities they're meant to protect?
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They're using a munition colloquially call a stun grenade, not concussion grenade, that has a brilliant flash and also about three to five pounds of over-pressure that stuns everybody inside the building so that target discrimination can be conducted.
oroboros commented on the word stun
Nuts in reverse.
July 22, 2007