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Stunning   /stˈənɪŋ/   Listen
Stunning

adjective
1.
Commanding attention.  Synonyms: arresting, sensational.  "A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten" , "A stunning performance"
2.
Causing great astonishment and consternation.  "A stunning defeat"
3.
Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility.  "A stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
4.
Strikingly beautiful or attractive.  "Stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"


Stun

verb
(past & past part. stunned; pres. part. stunning)
1.
Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.  Synonym: stupefy.
2.
Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.  Synonym: sandbag.
3.
Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief.  Synonyms: bedaze, daze.



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"Stunning" Quotes from Famous Books



... It is so perfectly stunning. Do you know what its name is? Why, Green Gables, of ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... tenaciously. The crowd was shouting the two men's names, and exchanging cries of triumph and abuse. Suddenly an arm shot across Pete's breast, an elbow was driven into his throat, the two men wheeled, and the big one was sprung from his feet and sent down, with a stunning shock. The yelling ceased suddenly, every ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... Admission Day parade for the Native Daughters of the Golden West—stalwart, stunning young giantesses marching with a splendid carriage and a superb poise—they seem like a ...
— The Californiacs • Inez Haynes Irwin
... the porcupine always takes special care to protect its head by rolling itself into a ball. Any blow or wound on the nose is capable of completely stunning it, and for the time being it can be handled and ...
— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin
... it's real good in you—darn me if it ain't! I knew you'd be regularly struck up all of a heap when you heard of me as a Baron, but I really didn't think you'd come all the way here to see me. And you do look stunning! You do beat all! And this lady? You haven't introduced ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille


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