Stun

Definition: Stun

Stun

Verb

1. Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish".

2. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.

3. Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.

4. Overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stun" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Stun

Excitation

Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.

Inexpectation

Surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound; (strike with wonder).

Insensibility

Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify.

Physical Insensibility

Render insensible. Adjective: anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform. Noun: stupefy, stun.

Wonder

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Crosswords: Stun

Brick Top's way of doing business is with a stun gun, a plastic bag, a roll of tape, and a pack of hungry pigs. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

I've set my laser from stun to kill. (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

No, I'm making a stun potion. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

That's a nice stun gun Joan. (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

I warn you, if you don't lie on the floor I will have to stun you. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett)

911 Kiss Set to Stun (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Set Your Laser to Stun (reference)

• United States of America Rights for All: Cruelty in Control?: The Stun Belt and Other Electro-Shock Equipment in Law Enforcement (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Stun (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Become a Hollywood Stun (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Put Your Phazers on Stun Throw Your Health Food Skyward (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

That is just the stun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Other than import duties (ranging between 4-14 percent of CIF value) and a 20 percent value-added tax (IVA), no trade restrictions or other non-tariff barriers exist on the import of U.S. safety and security equipment, except in certain cases for devices (for example, pepper sprays, stun guns, etc.). (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

For example, at the Imbabura Rehabilitation Unit for Minor Offenders, adolescents routinely are beaten, shocked with stun guns, and subsist on rations worth about 55 cents per day. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "stun": stun baton ♦ stun gun. Additional references.

Beginning with "stun": stun-gas, stun-gun, stun-guns.

Albanian

shushat (daze, distract, dumbfound, flummox, pose), shushas (daze, distract, dumbfound, flummox, pose), trullos (befuddle, bewilder, daze, freak, intoxicate, overwhelm, stultify, stupefy), lë pa ndjenja. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقدان الصواب, ‏فاجأ (catch, overtake, stagger, startle, stupefy, take), ‏وصم (deafen, stigmatize), ‏صعق (astound, dumbfound, flabbergast, stupefy, thunderstrike, wither), ‏صرع (bring down, bump, cut down, floor, knock down, pick off, poleaxe, strike), ‏صدمة (concussion, hit, impact, jar, jolt, shock, trauma), ‏ذهل (amaze, astonish, astound, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, distract, flabbergast, flummox, maze, shake, shock, stagger, stupefy, surprise, take a fancy to, taken aback, wonder), ‏ذهول (absence, abstractedness, amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, distraction, maze, stupefaction, stupor, trance), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏دهش (amaze, astonish, stagger, startle, surprise), ‏دوخ (beat about the bush, daze, swim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смайвам (amaze, baffle, bedazzle, dazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, kill, knock, knock out, rock, stagger), слисвам (amaze, bemuse, boggle, bowl over, flabbergast, startle, transfix), шокирам (jar, scandalize, shock), зашеметявам (besot, daze, rock, stagger), проглушавам ушите, потресвам (appal, appall, chill, shake), изплашвам (alarm, frighten, rouse, scare, scarring, start, startle, warn away). (various references)

Chinese 

震惊 (Astound, Astounded, Astounding, Egregious, stunned, stunning), 目瞪口呆 . (various references)

Czech

omráèit (bemuse), ohromit (amaze, astound, bewilder, confound, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, strike dumb, stupefy, transfix). (various references)

Danish

bedøvelse uden kraniebrud (stun without fracture of the skull). (various references)

Dutch

bedwelmen (drug, intoxicate, stupefy). (various references)

Esperanto

svenigi (drug, intoxicate, stupefy). (various references)

Farsi 

گیجی (Bafflement, Muddle, Quandary, Razzledazzle, Stupefaction, Stupor), گیج کردن (Astonish, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Daze, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Muddle, Perplex, Petrify, Stump, Stupefy), حیرت زده کردن , سراسیمه کردن (Agitate, Shock), بی حس کردن (Callous). (various references)

Finnish

lamauttaa (depress, discourage, dishearten, paralyze), huumata (dope, intoxicate, stupefy), ällistyttää (alarm, amaze, appal, dismay, dumbfound, puzzle). (various references)

French

abasourdir (stupefy). (various references)

German

betäuben (anaesthetize, anesthetize, benumb, daze, deaden, deafen, drug, ease, intoxicate, kill, numb, put out, put under, to anesthetize, to intoxicate, to stun, to stupefy). (various references)

Greek 

ζαλίζω (befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, daze, discomfit, flummox, mystify, stagger, stupefy). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזעזע (agitate, convulse, jar, jolt, shake, shock, stagger, startle), ל�"מם (confound, daze, dumbfound, overwhelm), ל�"�"�"ים (amaze, appal, appall, astonish, astound, bewilder, bowl over, dumbfound, flabbergast, perplex, shock, stagger, stupefy). (various references)

Hungarian

megszédít (to giddy, to panic), elkábít (fluster, fuddle, narcotize, nobble, stupefy, to befuddle, to bemuse, to deaden, to drug, to narcotize, to numb, to obfuscate, to stupefy). (various references)

Italian

assordare (daze, deafen, din, numb). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スタン . (various references)

Korean 

기� �시키십시�". (various references)

Manx

kyrloghey (anaesthetization, anaesthetize, anaesthetize locally, benumb, benumbing, deaden, numb, paralyse), jannoo thollaneagh (stupefy), cur neeal er. (various references)

Pig Latin

unstay

Portuguese

fazer espantar, estupeficar (bemuse, stagger), estontear (amaze, befuddle), desorientar (addle, baffle, bewilder, disorient, disorientate, disturb, dizzy, flap, flummox, fluster, gravel, maze, muddy, nonplus, perplex, perturb, puzzle), chocar (breed, brood, bump, cannon, hatch, hit, hurtle, incubate, jar, ram, scunner, set, shake, shock, sit, startle, strike), aturdir (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, deafen, din, obfuscate), atordoar (amaze, appal, daze, deafen, din, dismay, dizzy, hag, lay out, mope, puzzle, stagger, stupefy). (various references)

Romanian

ului (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, flabbergast, flurry), nãuci (bemuse, bewilder, dumbfound, flabbergast, fog, mizzle, strike smb. dumb), copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, whelm), buimãci (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, distract, dumbfound, flabbergast, flummox, horrify, stupefy, surprise), ameţi (amaze, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, bewilder, dizzy, fluster, fuddle, get dizzy, intoxicate, stagger, stupefy). (various references)

Russian 

ошеломлять (bemuse, daze, flabbergast, overwhelm, perplex), оглушать (deafen, devocalize, unvoice). (various references)

Scottish

teamhall (slight swoon or stun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ošamutiti (besot, daze, obfuscate, stupefy). (various references)

Spanish

aturdir (abash, befuddle, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, distract, drug, fluster, fuddle, intoxicate, knock out, muddle, numb, stupefy). (various references)

Swedish

bedöva (anaesthetize, daze, deaden, deafen, drug, make unconscious, stupefy). (various references)

Turkish

sersemletmek (bemuse, bewilder, daze, dizzy, dull, fuddle, hocus, make dizzy, make giddy, send smb. reeling, stupefy), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), afallatmak (amaze, astonish, astound, confuse, daze, flabbergast, floor, flummox, stump, stupefy). (various references)

Ukrainian

приголомшувати (appal, appall, astound, bemuse, daunt, daze, dizzy, doze, dumbfound, jar, overwhelm), приголомшення. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng bất tỉnh nhân sự đòn choáng váng, cú l� m bất tỉnh nhân sự. (various references)

Welsh

syfrdanu (astound, daze, stupefy), pensyfrdanu (bewilder, daze), hurtio (stupefy), byddaru (deafen). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stun": stung, stunk, stunned, stunner, stunners, stunning, stunningly, stuns, stunsail, stunsails, stunt, stunted, stuntedness, stuntednesses, stunting, stuntman, stuntmen, stunts, stuntwoman, stuntwomen. (additional references)

Words containing "stun": mistune, mistuned, mistunes, mistuning, outstunt, outstunted, outstunting, outstunts, unstung. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dssun, Estyn, Htun, saun, scun, setun, seun, sgun, shtum, snut, sotun, soun, stan, sten, stin, stinn, stinx, ston, stoun, stown, stoz, stu, stue, stug, stui, stul, stune, stunz, sturn, stus, stuv, stuw, stux, stuy, stuz, styn, sunt, tsui, tsun. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nuts, tuns.

-1 letter: nus, nut, sun, tun, uns, uts.

-2 letters: nu, un, us, ut.

+1 letter: aunts, bunts, cunts, dunts, hunts, lunts, nutsy, punts, runts, shunt, snout, stung, stunk, stuns, stunt, suint, tonus, tunas, tunes, tungs, turns, units, unset.

+2 letters: blunts, brunts, bundts, cantus, counts, cutins, daunts, donuts, founts, funest, futons, grunts, haunts, inputs, insult, jaunts, juntas, juntos, knouts, lunets, mounts, mutons, nudest, nudist, outsin, puntos, putons, quants, quints, rutins, santur, shunts, snouts, snouty, squint, stound, strung, strunt, stunts, subnet, suints, sultan, sunket, sunlit, sunset, suntan, tabuns, taunts, tenues, tenuis, thunks, trunks, tuners, tunics, unfits, unhats, unites, unjust, unrest, unseat, unsent, unsets, unshut, unstep, unstop, unties, unwits, upsent, vaunts.