About The Word Stun
Learn about the word Stun to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Stun definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Stun
| Stun Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Stun?
[v] make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
[v] hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [v] surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off [v] overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stun: ball over | bedaze | blow out of the water | daze | floor | sandbag | shock | stupefy | take aback Related Terms | Find terms related to Stun: See Also | desensitise | desensitize | galvanise | galvanize | hit | immobilise | immobilize | startle | surprise Stun In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Genus syrrhaptes ‐ a genus of…
- Beef wellington ‐ rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff…
- Cotton wool ‐ silky fibers from cotton plants in their…
- Adder's fern ‐ mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks…
- Crawl ‐ a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging…
- Pompey the great ‐ Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled…
- Nucleolus organizer ‐ the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a…
- Bullet ‐ (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late…
- Stableness ‐ the quality or attribute of…
- Rangeland ‐ lan suitable for grazing…