Usually means: Temporarily incapacitate with shock, surprise.
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  1. stun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stun: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stun, stun: Wordnik
  7. stun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stun: Wiktionary
  9. stun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stun: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stun: Dictionary.com
  13. stun: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. S.T.U.N, S.T.U.N. (band), STUN, Stun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stun: Rhymezone
  19. stun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stun: Free Dictionary
  22. stun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. stun: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. stun: Legal dictionary

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  2. stun: Medical dictionary

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stun, stun: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.T.U.N, S.T.U.N, stun: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stun: Sports Definitions

(Note: See stunned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
verb:  (transitive) To shock or surprise.
verb:  (snooker, billiards) 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
verb:  (intransitive, video games) To enter a stunned state.
verb:  (Singapore, military, slang) To confiscate (an unguarded rifle, magazine, piece of equipment, etc.) from an unsuspecting soldier as punishment for neglect.
noun:  The condition of being stunned.
noun:  That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
noun:  (Newfoundland) A person who lacks intelligence.
noun:  (billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
noun:  (science fiction, uncountable) A low-range setting for an energy weapon that will stun its target but not injure or kill it.

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