stunned : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stunned	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stunned
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stunned adj 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" Synonym(s): amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned knocked unconscious by a heavy blow Synonym(s): knocked out(p), kayoed, KO'd, out(p), stunned 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" Synonym(s): dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid(p)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]hnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. [?], Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. [fb]168.] 1. 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. 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. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.