stunv.

Brit.

/stʌn/, U.S.

/stən/

Forms: Inflected stunned, stunning. Forms; 1500s stonne, 1600s ston, Middle English– stun; past tense and past participle Middle English–1600s stund, (Middle English stunt), Middle English stoned(e, Middle English stonet, stonde, 1500s–1600s stonnd, stonn'd.

Etymology: Aphetic < Old French estone-r (modern French étonner ): see astone v., of which this is a doublet. Compare also stony v., stoyne v.It has been usual to regard this verb as representing Old English stunian, to resound; but the sense differs essentially, and the Old English verb apparently did not survive into Middle English.

a. transitive. To deprive of consciousness or of power of motion by a blow, a fall, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun

asweveOE

stonyc1330

astone1340

astony1340

stouna1400

stounda1400

stuna1400

stoynec1450

dozen1487

astonish1530

benumb1530

daunt1581

dammisha1598

still1778

silence1785

to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1829

to lay out1891

out1896

wooden1904

to knock rotten1919

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render powerless > render powerless or helpless

stuna1400

dozen1487

palsy?1615

paralyse1764

palsify1882

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12280 A child þar kest a-noiþer don Vte of þe loft vnto þe grund, þe child to ded þar was he stund.

c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 10377 Bothe her swordis out thei drow And ffauȝt to-geder long y-now, Til thei were stoned hede and brayn.

c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 205 His stede was stonet starke ded.

c1475 Partenay 4700 With that stroke he was stoned manyfold.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii6^v Wherewith she was so stuned, that he n'ote ryde But reeled to and fro from east to west.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 They kill it [a fish] by first stunning it with a knock with a mallet.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. ix. 296 At length, Du Pont forced Verezzi to the floor, where he lay stunned by the violence of his fall.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 271 The ball, which had been nearly spent before it struck him, had stunned instead of killing him.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. x. 215 She was as one stunned into unconsciousness;..she hardly breathed.

figurative.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 721 The faction which had been prostrated and stunned began to give signs of returning animation.

b. Applied to an inanimate or immaterial object.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > make inactive [verb (transitive)]

unactive1639

stun1700

unmechanize1761

paralyse1764

hang1778

benumb1789

inactivate1901

disable1932

stultify1958

deactivate1970

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 553 The giddy Ship betwixt the Winds and Tides Forc'd back, and forwards in a Circle rides, Stun'd with the diff'rent Blows.

1911 H. Craik Life Ld. Clarendon II. 243 Public credit was shaken; commercial operations were stunned.

a. To daze or astound with some strong emotion or impression.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy

awhapec1300

stonyc1330

astony1340

astonec1374

mazec1390

stounda1400

stuna1400

to-stony?a1400

stounc1400

clumsec1440

overmusec1460

stonish1488

strike1533

dazzle1561

stoyne1563

stupefy1577

stupefact1583

obstupefy1611

astound1637

petrify1667

flabbergast1773

stagnatea1798

stama1800

swarf1813

boggle1835

razzle-dazzle1886

to knock sideways1890

stupend1900

gobsmack1987

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 443 Þen were þai stoned ilkone. ‘No drede,’ he saide, ‘has ȝe.’

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 76 I was adeuyd of þat dynt; Hit stoned me.

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. v. sig. H3^v Nay you haue stonnd me I fayth?

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 400 Salomons Wealth, it was of that vastnesse, it would..stun the Beliefe of one of our..Rich Misers.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 264 At the sight therefore of this River, the Pilgrims were much stun'd [1678 ed. 1 stounded].

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 234 Lady Catherine was stunned by this distinct refusal.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Madame D'Arblay in Eclectic Mag. Apr. 453/1 The multitude, unacquainted with the best models, are captivated by whatever stuns and dazzles them.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped vi. 50 I sat stunned with my good fortune.

†b. intransitive. To be amazed or astounded. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)]

wonderc888

awondera1250

amarvelc1330

muse1340

marvela1382

astone1393

ferlya1400

admirec1429

stun1533

marl1601

wonder-maze1603

strange1639

admirize1702

astony1850

mirate1893

1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde 13 b Thei beyng yet but feble of fayth..muste here nedis haue wondred, stonned and staggerd.

a. transitive. To daze or bewilder with noise or din.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > deafen or stun

adinc1275

stonyc1330

astone1340

astony1340

deavea1400

fordeave?1553

blasta1616

stun1621

obtund1664

dunt1672

dun1674

bruit1707

astound1727

steven1862

1621 Bp. H. King Serm. 25 Nov. 4 A man may heare so much that hee may ston the sense.

1660 King Charles II Let. 26 May in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 57 My head is so dreadfully stunned with the acclamations of the people.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 228 If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 327 Four half-stripped knaves stunned the neighbourhood with the clang of hammer and stithy.

1910 Q. Rev. July 100 The ear is stunned by the not unmusical roar of the Falls [of Niagara].

absolute.1723 J. Swift Pethox 76 The Britons, once a savage Kind,..With Limbs robust, and Voice that stuns.1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 21 Where..Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound.

b. hyperbolically.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > telling strange stories > astonish with a story [verb (transitive)]

stun1693

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires i. 3 Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score, Stun'd with hoarse Codrus Theseid, o're and o're?

1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters vi. 22 You shall sometimes see him gather a Crowd round him,..and stun the People with a senseless Story of an Injury that is done him.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 41 An old drunken cavaliering butler, who..stunned the family nightly with his exploits at Kilsyth and Tippermoor.

a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 365 Complaints of all kinds stunned me from all quarters.

†4. To break or crush with heavy blows. Obsolete. Cf. stony v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > beat or dash to pieces

to-slaya700

to-beatc893

to-torvec1000

to-hurtc1230

to-busta1250

to-dashc1275

dash1297

crazec1369

to-bray1382

to-flap1382

quasha1387

to-rusha1387

astone1440

stun1470

beat1570

to-swinge-

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily > so as to crush or damage

stun1470

to bash up1790

cave1857

blooter1990

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iii. vii. 107 [They] clafe their sheldes and stoned their helmes and brak their hawberkes.

a. transitive. To bruise or loosen the surface of (stone, a mineral), so that it splinters or exfoliates. Also, to scratch or tear (a surface) in sawing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]

mareOE

shendOE

hinderc1000

amarOE

awemc1275

noyc1300

touchc1300

bleche1340

blemisha1375

spill1377

misdoa1387

grieve1390

damagea1400

despoil?a1400

matea1400

snapea1400

mankc1400

overthrowa1425

tamec1430

undermine1430

blunder1440

depaira1460

adommage?1473

endamage1477

prejudicec1487

fulyie1488

martyra1500

dyscrase?1504

corrupt1526

mangle1534

danger1538

destroy1542

spoil1563

ruinate1564

ruin1567

wrake1570

injury1579

bane1587

massacre1589

ravish1594

wrong1595

rifle1604

tainta1616

mutilea1618

to do violence toa1625

flaw1665

stun1676

quail1682

maul1694

moil1698

damnify1712

margullie1721

maul1782

buga1790

mux1806

queer1818

batter1840

puckeroo1840

rim-rack1841

pretty1868

garbage1899

savage1899

to do in1905

strafe1915

mash1924

blow1943

nuke1967

mung1969

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 755 The Mine-men do often strike such forcible strokes with a great Iron-crow, that that stuns the Diamond and so flaws it.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 465 It..has numerous crystals and quadrilateral plates of felspar in perfect preservation, except that it has a dry aspect, and is stunned in some parts.

1890 Funk's Standard Dict.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stun,..to bruise, as building stone, so as to cause spalls in the stone.

b. intransitive. Of stone, etc.: To exfoliate, peel off in splinters or laminæ.

ΚΠ

1843 R. W. Billings Archit. Illustr. & Descr. Durham Cathedral 15 There is a peculiarity about the stone, called by the workmen ‘stunning’, which is the peeling off (within a few years), from the effect of hammer and chisel, of a layer varying from one quarter to three eighths of an inch thick.

Compounds

stun gas n. a gas that incapacitates by causing temporary confusion and disorientation.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > gas

poison gas1816

gas1897

mustard gas1917

tear-gas1917

yperite1917

mustard1918

phosgene1918

riot gas1930

war gas1934

nausea gas1936

nerve gas1940

tear-smoke1946

Sarin1951

Soman1951

pepper gas1968

stun gas1968

pepper spray1986

1968 Punch 21 Feb. 253 Here is a run-down of anti~crowd devices which other nations, notably America, are developing:..stun gas; gas which temporarily blinds.

stun grenade n. a grenade that only stuns through its sound and flash.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade

trombe1562

grenade1591

grenado1611

granata1637

hand grenade1637

bag-granado1638

shell1647

glass-grenade1664

globe1672

flask1769

petrol bomb1903

rifle grenade1909

hairbrush1916

Mills1916

pineapple bomb1916

stick grenade1917

fragmentation bomb1918

pineapple1918

potato-masher grenade1925

spitball1925

Molotov cocktail1940

sticky bomb1940

stick-bomb1941

red devila1944

stun grenade1977

flash-bang1982

1977 Times 19 Oct. 1/4 The ‘stun’ grenades which played such a vital part in enabling the West German commando unit to overcome the terrorists..were supplied by Britain.

1981 A. Winch Blood Money xxi. 236 The stun grenades..looked like unmarked beer cans and provided a deafening explosion, a blinding flash.

stun gun n. a gun that fires shot which stuns without causing serious injury.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > stun gun

stun gun1971

Taser1972

1971 Sunday Times 30 May 5 The stun gun has already been used effectively by the Alameda County Sheriff's Department who are called in whenever student riots at Berkeley become too much for the local police.

1975 Nature 13 Feb. 495/3 One hopes that the [polar bear tagging] expedition will be equipped with a supply of stun-guns.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stun
释义	stunn. Brit. /stʌn/, U.S. /stən/ Etymology: < stun v. 1. The act of stunning or dazing; a stunning effect; the condition of being stunned. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > stunned condition stunningc1475 disturdisona1500 stun1727 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > act of causing wonder amazing1530 mazing1583 overwhelm1596 stun1727 zapping1972 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > stunned condition > stunning stunningc1475 stoyning1594 stun1727 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise > effect of loud noise stun1727 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder > accompanied by stupefaction excessa1387 astounedness1549 stound1567 astoniedness1580 stun1836 transfixture1886 mazement1901 1727 J. Thomson Summer 40 Till the Stun [1744 sound] Of a near Fall of Water every Sense Wakes. a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 159 The People return'd their joyful Sense of the King's Safety..by numerous Addresses from all Parts of the Kingdom; which gave such a Stun to the rebellious Party..that little Sign of any Resurrection to Action appear'd in them. 1804 Naval Chron. 12 397 He fainted from the stun. 1836 J. Ruskin Ess. Lit. in Wks. (1903) I. 361 In the first stun of our astonishment. 1887 Poor Nellie (1888) 189 Before poor Adela could recover from the stun of a great astonishment. 2. A flaw on the surface of a piece of stone. Cf. stun v. 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > piece of stone > flaw in nail1655 stun1850 1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 1198 The last marks to be eradicated in the smoothing are generally those called stuns, made in sawing the marble by coarse particles of sand getting between the side of the saw blade and the saw kerf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stunv. Brit. /stʌn/, U.S. /stən/ Forms: Inflected stunned, stunning. Forms; 1500s stonne, 1600s ston, Middle English– stun; past tense and past participle Middle English–1600s stund, (Middle English stunt), Middle English stoned(e, Middle English stonet, stonde, 1500s–1600s stonnd, stonn'd. Etymology: Aphetic < Old French estone-r (modern French étonner ): see astone v., of which this is a doublet. Compare also stony v., stoyne v.It has been usual to regard this verb as representing Old English stunian, to resound; but the sense differs essentially, and the Old English verb apparently did not survive into Middle English. 1. a. transitive. To deprive of consciousness or of power of motion by a blow, a fall, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun asweveOE stonyc1330 astone1340 astony1340 stouna1400 stounda1400 stuna1400 stoynec1450 dozen1487 astonish1530 benumb1530 daunt1581 dammisha1598 still1778 silence1785 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1829 to lay out1891 out1896 wooden1904 to knock rotten1919 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render powerless > render powerless or helpless stuna1400 dozen1487 palsy?1615 paralyse1764 palsify1882 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12280 A child þar kest a-noiþer don Vte of þe loft vnto þe grund, þe child to ded þar was he stund. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 10377 Bothe her swordis out thei drow And ffauȝt to-geder long y-now, Til thei were stoned hede and brayn. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 205 His stede was stonet starke ded. c1475 Partenay 4700 With that stroke he was stoned manyfold. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii6^v Wherewith she was so stuned, that he n'ote ryde But reeled to and fro from east to west. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 They kill it [a fish] by first stunning it with a knock with a mallet. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. ix. 296 At length, Du Pont forced Verezzi to the floor, where he lay stunned by the violence of his fall. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 271 The ball, which had been nearly spent before it struck him, had stunned instead of killing him. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. x. 215 She was as one stunned into unconsciousness;..she hardly breathed. figurative.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 721 The faction which had been prostrated and stunned began to give signs of returning animation. b. Applied to an inanimate or immaterial object. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > make inactive [verb (transitive)] unactive1639 stun1700 unmechanize1761 paralyse1764 hang1778 benumb1789 inactivate1901 disable1932 stultify1958 deactivate1970 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 553 The giddy Ship betwixt the Winds and Tides Forc'd back, and forwards in a Circle rides, Stun'd with the diff'rent Blows. 1911 H. Craik Life Ld. Clarendon II. 243 Public credit was shaken; commercial operations were stunned. 2. a. To daze or astound with some strong emotion or impression. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy awhapec1300 stonyc1330 astony1340 astonec1374 mazec1390 stounda1400 stuna1400 to-stony?a1400 stounc1400 clumsec1440 overmusec1460 stonish1488 strike1533 dazzle1561 stoyne1563 stupefy1577 stupefact1583 obstupefy1611 astound1637 petrify1667 flabbergast1773 stagnatea1798 stama1800 swarf1813 boggle1835 razzle-dazzle1886 to knock sideways1890 stupend1900 gobsmack1987 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 443 Þen were þai stoned ilkone. ‘No drede,’ he saide, ‘has ȝe.’ c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 76 I was adeuyd of þat dynt; Hit stoned me. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. v. sig. H3^v Nay you haue stonnd me I fayth? View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 400 Salomons Wealth, it was of that vastnesse, it would..stun the Beliefe of one of our..Rich Misers. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 264 At the sight therefore of this River, the Pilgrims were much stun'd [1678 ed. 1 stounded]. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 234 Lady Catherine was stunned by this distinct refusal. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Madame D'Arblay in Eclectic Mag. Apr. 453/1 The multitude, unacquainted with the best models, are captivated by whatever stuns and dazzles them. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped vi. 50 I sat stunned with my good fortune. †b. intransitive. To be amazed or astounded. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] wonderc888 awondera1250 amarvelc1330 muse1340 marvela1382 astone1393 ferlya1400 admirec1429 stun1533 marl1601 wonder-maze1603 strange1639 admirize1702 astony1850 mirate1893 1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde 13 b Thei beyng yet but feble of fayth..muste here nedis haue wondred, stonned and staggerd. 3. a. transitive. To daze or bewilder with noise or din. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > deafen or stun adinc1275 stonyc1330 astone1340 astony1340 deavea1400 fordeave?1553 blasta1616 stun1621 obtund1664 dunt1672 dun1674 bruit1707 astound1727 steven1862 1621 Bp. H. King Serm. 25 Nov. 4 A man may heare so much that hee may ston the sense. 1660 King Charles II Let. 26 May in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 57 My head is so dreadfully stunned with the acclamations of the people. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 228 If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 327 Four half-stripped knaves stunned the neighbourhood with the clang of hammer and stithy. 1910 Q. Rev. July 100 The ear is stunned by the not unmusical roar of the Falls [of Niagara]. absolute.1723 J. Swift Pethox 76 The Britons, once a savage Kind,..With Limbs robust, and Voice that stuns.1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 21 Where..Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound. b. hyperbolically. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > telling strange stories > astonish with a story [verb (transitive)] stun1693 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires i. 3 Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score, Stun'd with hoarse Codrus Theseid, o're and o're? 1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters vi. 22 You shall sometimes see him gather a Crowd round him,..and stun the People with a senseless Story of an Injury that is done him. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 41 An old drunken cavaliering butler, who..stunned the family nightly with his exploits at Kilsyth and Tippermoor. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 365 Complaints of all kinds stunned me from all quarters. †4. To break or crush with heavy blows. Obsolete. Cf. stony v. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > beat or dash to pieces to-slaya700 to-beatc893 to-torvec1000 to-hurtc1230 to-busta1250 to-dashc1275 dash1297 crazec1369 to-bray1382 to-flap1382 quasha1387 to-rusha1387 astone1440 stun1470 beat1570 to-swinge- the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily > so as to crush or damage stun1470 to bash up1790 cave1857 blooter1990 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iii. vii. 107 [They] clafe their sheldes and stoned their helmes and brak their hawberkes. 5. a. transitive. To bruise or loosen the surface of (stone, a mineral), so that it splinters or exfoliates. Also, to scratch or tear (a surface) in sawing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 755 The Mine-men do often strike such forcible strokes with a great Iron-crow, that that stuns the Diamond and so flaws it. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 465 It..has numerous crystals and quadrilateral plates of felspar in perfect preservation, except that it has a dry aspect, and is stunned in some parts. 1890 Funk's Standard Dict. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stun,..to bruise, as building stone, so as to cause spalls in the stone. b. intransitive. Of stone, etc.: To exfoliate, peel off in splinters or laminæ. ΚΠ 1843 R. W. Billings Archit. Illustr. & Descr. Durham Cathedral 15 There is a peculiarity about the stone, called by the workmen ‘stunning’, which is the peeling off (within a few years), from the effect of hammer and chisel, of a layer varying from one quarter to three eighths of an inch thick. Compounds stun gas n. a gas that incapacitates by causing temporary confusion and disorientation. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > gas poison gas1816 gas1897 mustard gas1917 tear-gas1917 yperite1917 mustard1918 phosgene1918 riot gas1930 war gas1934 nausea gas1936 nerve gas1940 tear-smoke1946 Sarin1951 Soman1951 pepper gas1968 stun gas1968 pepper spray1986 1968 Punch 21 Feb. 253 Here is a run-down of anti~crowd devices which other nations, notably America, are developing:..stun gas; gas which temporarily blinds. stun grenade n. a grenade that only stuns through its sound and flash. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade trombe1562 grenade1591 grenado1611 granata1637 hand grenade1637 bag-granado1638 shell1647 glass-grenade1664 globe1672 flask1769 petrol bomb1903 rifle grenade1909 hairbrush1916 Mills1916 pineapple bomb1916 stick grenade1917 fragmentation bomb1918 pineapple1918 potato-masher grenade1925 spitball1925 Molotov cocktail1940 sticky bomb1940 stick-bomb1941 red devila1944 stun grenade1977 flash-bang1982 1977 Times 19 Oct. 1/4 The ‘stun’ grenades which played such a vital part in enabling the West German commando unit to overcome the terrorists..were supplied by Britain. 1981 A. Winch Blood Money xxi. 236 The stun grenades..looked like unmarked beer cans and provided a deafening explosion, a blinding flash. stun gun n. a gun that fires shot which stuns without causing serious injury. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > stun gun stun gun1971 Taser1972 1971 Sunday Times 30 May 5 The stun gun has already been used effectively by the Alameda County Sheriff's Department who are called in whenever student riots at Berkeley become too much for the local police. 1975 Nature 13 Feb. 495/3 One hopes that the [polar bear tagging] expedition will be equipped with a supply of stun-guns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1727v.a1400
随便看	to take the wall of a person to take the water to take the waters to take the way to take the weight off to take the weight off one's feet to take the whiff to take the white veil to take the will for the deed to take the wind out of the sails of to take the wire edge off to take the woe with the weal to take the word to take the words out of a person's mouth to take the worse and leave the better to take the worse and scorn the better to take the wrong pig by the ear to take the wrong pig by the tail to take their cloots to take things as one finds them to take things as they come to take thought to take through to take through hand to take through hands

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