Definition of stuns Stuns

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Verb stuns, stuning, stuned
stun - overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
		bedaze, daze
		desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"
stun - make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
		stupefy
		immobilise, immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic"
stun - hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
		sandbag
		hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"

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stun (Noun)
The condition of being stunned.
stun (Noun)
The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
stun (Verb)
To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
stun (Verb)
To shock or surprise.
stun (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 .

stun (v. t.)
To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
stun (v. t.)
To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
stun (v. t.)
To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
stun (n.)
The condition of being stunned.

stun
stun, v.t. to stupefy or astonish with a loud noise, or with a blow: to surprise completely: to amaze:—pr.p. stun′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. stunned.—n. a stroke, shock, stupefying blow.—ns. Stun′ner, a person or an action that strikes with amazement; Stun′ning, stupefaction.—adj. very striking, astonishing.—adv. Stun′ningly. [A.S. stunian, to make a din—stun, a din.]