Thesaurus / stuns
FEEDBACKsynonyms for stuns
synonyms for stuns
- astonish
- astound
- bemuse
- bewilder
- blow away
- bowl over
- confound
- confuse
- daze
- dumbfound
- flabbergast
- floor
- fog
- give a turn
- hit like ton of bricks
- knock out
- knock over
- knock unconscious
- muddle
- overcome
- overpower
- overwhelm
- paralyze
- petrify
- rock
- shake up
- stagger
- strike dumb
- surprise
- take breath away
- throw a curve
- paralyze
- knock out
- dumbfound
- bewilder
- overwhelm
- bemuse
- confuse
- astound
- confound
- amaze
- astonish
- daze
- rock
- surprise
- flabbergast
- shake up
- overcome
- overpower
- hit
- floor
- muddle
- stagger
- fog
- stupefy
- petrify
- bowl over
- blow away
- knock over
- knock unconscious
- strike dumb
antonyms for stuns
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
TRY USING stuns
See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.
How to use stuns in a sentence
There is a tapping, as of a woodpecker with delirium tremens, which at once stuns and electrifies the ear.
ADVENTURES AND ENTHUSIASMSE. V. LUCASSoon he is obliged to make a discovery that stuns him: that medicine is incapable of curing many evils.
CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN NOVELISTSSERGE PERSKYA smart blow with a club stuns them, and a wound does the rest.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, V. 3, NUMBER 18VARIOUSThey smashed up the clock and cut up the bedsteads; and, in fact, ruin stares us in the face, and doleful complaint stuns the ear.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 20, NO. 118, AUGUST, 1887VARIOUSIf one blow only stuns the prey, and it falls, the leopard just starts eating the throat, which of course kills the prey.
THE WONDERS OF THE JUNGLE, BOOK TWOPRINCE SARATH GHOSHFor a moment, a work like the Eighth Symphony stuns the auditor with its sheer physical bulk.
MUSICAL PORTRAITSPAUL ROSENFELDNowadays an ogre called Ten-O'Clock steals up behind my chair with a club in his hand and stuns me into insensibility.
THE PRAIRIE WIFEARTHUR STRINGERHe'll put the stuns on all them nobs, too, that think a racehorse must always come out of one of their training stables.'
ROBBERY UNDER ARMSTHOMAS ALEXANDER BROWNE, AKA ROLF BOLDREWOODThat meant work—the hard, incessant, blinding, stupefying work which stuns thought and makes such a life endurable.
THE YOUNGER SETROBERT W. CHAMBERSThis is a deed which in its horror and wicked purposelessness stuns the world and cries to heaven for vengeance.
A NOBLE WOMANERNEST PROTHEROE