stun Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
    stupefy.
    • stun fish
  2. verb hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
    sandbag.
  3. verb overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
    bedaze; daze.
    • The news stunned her

WordNet

Stun transitive verb
Etymology
OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. stöhnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. , Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. *168.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stunned ; present participle & verbal noun Stunning
Definitions
  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 noun
Definitions
  1. The condition of being stunned.

Webster 1913