'Stunned' definitions:

Definition of 'stunned'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn: knocked out(p), kayoed, KO'd, out(p), stunned]
adjective
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)]

Definition of 'Stunned'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. [1913 Webster]
  • And stunned him with the music of the spheres. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. [1913 Webster]
  • William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'stunned'

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