stun
stun is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse. De Foe.
- 3.The condition of being stunned.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adder
- agent
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- beetle
- benumb
- blunt
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- close
- coma
- comatose
- dead
- deaf
- deaf-mute
- deafen
- deafness
- dull
- ear
- earless
- ether
- evil
- exhilarating
- gas
- hard
- hardened
- hardness
- have
- hear
- hearing
- hemiplegia
- hide
- impercipient
- inaudibility
- inaudible
- influence
- insensibility
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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