stun
IPA: stˈʌn
noun
- The condition of being stunned.
- That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
- (Newfoundland) A person who lacks intelligence.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A low-range setting for an energy weapon that will stun its target but not injure or kill it.
verb
- (transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
- (transitive) To shock or surprise.
- (snooker, billiards) 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
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Examples of "stun" in Sentences
- People don't stun easily.
- The blow would stun the fish.
- There are ways to stun people.
- The paramedic is stunned and relieved.
- The main image at the end is stunning.
- The quality of this artwork is stunning.
- Her appearance is seraphic and stunning.
- I was stunned by the finis of this movie.
- It was stunning in the whole story of the game.
- The detail in the dresses is particularly stunning.
- I mean, who wouldn’t want electric Cinderella Shoes with a built-in stun gun?
- Well, so-called stun grenades are supposed to confuse and disorient a potential threat.
- DE LA CRUZ: So-called stun grenades are supposed to confuse and disorient a potential threat, but why are they hurting the very authorities they're meant to protect?
- My subject matter has inspired baffled stares at high school reunions, jokes from schoolteachers about putting their students in stun belts, and yelling sessions in elevators.
- Stand straight, shoulders back, bitch-beams set to "stun" - for we are in the presence of Ms Joan Collins, who, as Alexis Colby-Carrington, committed murder while wearing a tam-o'-shanter, then proposed to a billionaire in a coma.
- They're using a munition colloquially call a stun grenade, not concussion grenade, that has a brilliant flash and also about three to five pounds of over-pressure that stuns everybody inside the building so that target discrimination can be conducted.
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