stunverb [ T ]
uk/stʌn/us/stʌn/-nn-stun verb [ T ] (SHOCK)
to shock or surprise someone very much:
News of the disaster stunned people throughout the world.
She was stunned by the amount of support she received from well-wishers.
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Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- dynamite
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- revelation
- spring sth on sb
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- thunderbolt
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stun verb [ T ] (MAKE UNCONSCIOUS)
to make a person or animal unconscious or unable to think normally, especially by hitting their head hard:
Stunned by the impact, he lay on the ground wondering what had happened.
This injection stuns the rhinoceros, so we can examine it.
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Losing consciousness
- black out
- blackout
- collapse
- coma
- concuss
- concussed
- concussion
- conk out
- go out like a light idiom
- insensible
- knock
- knock sb out
- oblivion
- out
- pass
- see
- see stars idiom
- stupor
- swoon
- syncope
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