stun

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow

   stun fish

2. 2
   verb

   overcome as with astonishment or disbelief

   The news stunned her

3. 3
   verb

   To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.

   Bill tried to stun the snake by striking it on the head.

4. 4
   verb

   To shock or surprise.

   The celebrity was stunned to find herself confronted with unfounded allegations on the front page of a newspaper.

5. 5
   verb

   To enter a stunned state.

   The monsters stun when you jump on them.

6. 6
   noun

   The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.

   Williams will need a lot of stun to avoid going in the middle pocket

7. 7
   noun

   A low-range setting for an energy weapon that will stun its target but not injure or kill it.

   Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

8. 8
   verb

   hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag

Etymology

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…