stun

Other forms of stun

past tense or participle

stunned

present participle

stunning

third person

stuns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stun

What does stun mean?

stun means "make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stun?

stun has 1 syllable: stun. In IPA it is /ˈstʌn/.

What is another word for stun?

Close synonyms include stupefy, sandbag, bedaze, daze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stun a common word?

stun is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.