Skip to main content

stun

/stuhn/US // stʌn //UK // (stʌn) //

眩晕,惊呆了,震惊,惊愕

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    stunned, stun·ning.

    • : to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
    • : to astonish; astound; amaze: Her wit stunned the audience.
    • : to shock; overwhelm: The world was stunned by the attempted assassination.
    • : to daze or bewilder by noise.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause astonishment or amazement: She stunned in a black and silver beaded gown, accessorized with a sparkly clutch.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of stunning.
    • : the condition of being stunned.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbshock
Forms: stunned, stunning, stuns

Examples

  • Lindemann said at one point the 15-year-old tried to use a stun gun on Anwar, although it was unclear if she succeeded.

  • From her mother’s front porch, she could hear the explosions of stun grenades and the cries of demonstrators crowded around the police station.

  • The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office came under state and federal investigation a year ago when staff members deployed pepper balls, a stun grenade and canines against immigrant detainees amid a dispute over coronavirus testing.

  • He was pulled into the crowd, beaten with poles, hit multiple times on the neck with a stun gun, rendered unconscious and suffered a mild heart attack.

  • The spokesman said one Park Police officer used a stun gun on the man.

  • The authorities were trying to arrest another man suspected of throwing a stun grenade when Hamdan attacked.

  • Even show ponies are not exempt from ending up in a narrowing chute that feeds the condemned in single file into the “stun box.”

  • Last month he stepped on a police stun grenade as it blew up, shredding his clothes and fracturing ribs.

  • Stun grenades exploded on the edges making a sound like a building being detonated.

  • Riot police used stun grenades and batons to violently beat them back.

  • He tole me I was to have all the money Miss Dory had been layin' up, an' he would send me mo' for the stun.

  • There had come to him an introductory statement; it was a smashing thing—a thing that would arrest and stun!

  • It was impossible to align the sights of his stun gun with any of those flitting shadows, Raf discovered.

  • Once more the party was alert, ready for trouble, and taking his cue from them, he kept his stun gun in his hand.

  • The stun ray, which had acted upon living creatures, could not govern the delicate mechanism in the hound's interior.