stun /ˈstʌn/
(vt.)使暈倒,使驚嚇,打暈暈眩,猛擊
stun /ˈstən/ 及物動詞
打昏,震暈
Stun v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.]
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.
Stun, n. The condition of being stunned.
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stun
v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
[syn: stupefy]
2: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor,
ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]
3: hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: sandbag]
4: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news
stunned her" [syn: bedaze, daze]
[also: stunning, stunned]