Usually means: Temporarily incapacitates or shocks someone.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stuns: Merriam-Webster
  2. stuns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stuns: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stuns: Vocabulary.com
  5. Stuns, stuns: Wordnik
  6. stuns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stuns: Wiktionary
  8. stuns: Dictionary.com
  9. stuns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. stuns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stuns: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stuns: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stuns: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. stuns: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stun)

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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