1. (v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

2. (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.

3. (v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.

4. (n.) The condition of being stunned.

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