"stunning" in the verb sense
1. stun, stupefy
make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
"stun fish"
2. sandbag, stun
hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
3. stun, bedaze, daze
overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
"The news stunned her"
"stunning" in the adjective sense
1. arresting, sensational, stunning
commanding attention
"an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"
"a sensational concert
2. stunning
causing great astonishment and consternation
"the strike came as a stunning protest against management"
"a stunning defeat"
3. stunning
causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
"laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"
"a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
4. stunning
strikingly beautiful or attractive
"quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"
"stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
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