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noun
The condition of being stunned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A person who lacks intelligence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Newfoundland, countable, uncountable
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noun
The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, pool, snooker, sports
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noun
A low-range setting for an energy weapon that will stun its target but not injure or kill it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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verb
To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: daze
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verb
To shock or surprise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports
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verb
To enter a stunned state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: video-games
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verb
To confiscate (an unguarded rifle, magazine, piece of equipment, etc.) from an unsuspecting soldier as punishment for neglect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stupefy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immobilize, immobilise
verb
hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sandbag
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit
verb
overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bedaze, daze
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: desensitize, desensitise
History
Inherited from Middle English stonen, stone (“to astonish, stun, numb”, also stoneyen), probably either directly or indirectly from Anglo-Norman estoner (“to stun, astonish”), from Late Latin *stunāre, from Frankish *stunōn (“to thunder, crash”) or perhaps from an unattested Latin *extonāre (“to thunder out, make a thunderous sound”), from tonāre ("to thunder"; compare Latin attonāre). An alternative etymology derives stonen from Old English stunian (“to smash, thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn. See also astonish, astound. Compare Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”), Occitan estonar (“to surprise”), and French étonner (“to surprise”), and more distantly, Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), and Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”).
Across languages
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