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单词 stun
释义 stun
I. \ˈstən\ transitive verb
(stunned ; stunned ; stunning ; stuns)
Etymology: Middle English stonen, stunen, modification of Old French estoner — more at astony
1.
 a. : to cause to lose consciousness (as by a blow or concussion)
  < gone about like a man half stunned — Rose Macaulay >
  < could stun a rabbit or a squirrel with a stone — Helen Eustis >
 b. : to bewilder or daze with noise, clamor, or din : benumb
  < a deafening crash stunning the ear drums — Fred Majdalany >
  < stunned into speechlessness by the abruptness and violence of the assault — W.A.Swanberg >
  < had been stunned by the terrific … bombardment — P.W.Thompson >
2.
 a. : to shock or paralyze with strong emotional impression : stupefy
  < still too stunned and dazed by the suddenness with which events had happened — Samuel Butler †1902 >
  < stunned and reeling under her invective — D.G.Gerahty >
  < almost stunned by the surprise — A.W.Long >
 b.
  (1) : to overcome with astonishment or disbelief : confound, perplex
   < preparing a statement to stun the company when we got the floor — Stuart Chase >
   < stunned me the other day by telling me she had attended a bullfight — G.S.Weight >
  (2) : to overcome with pleasure or beauty
   < the natural beauty of the desert stuns the visitor >
3.
 a. : to bruise (as building stone) so as to cause spalls in the surface
 b. : to scratch roughly (as by coarse sand under the saw in the kerf)
Synonyms: see daze
II. noun
(-s)
1. : the effect of something that stuns : shock
 < the stun of the blow … did not even dent his massive skull — James Jones >
 < bucklings and crashes and then the inside stun of an explosion — Saul Bellow >
2. : one of the various strokes of the cue in snooker
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