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stun
What does stun mean?
stun (verb): make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce stun?
/stʌn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does stun come from?
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.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “stun” mean?
to cover or extend over (an area or distance)
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acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
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make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
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act together or towards others or with others
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