stun
意味
- (殴打などで)…を気絶させる
- (驚き・時に喜びなどで)〈人〉の肝をつぶさせる,をぼう然とさせる(amaze)
例文
Grandmother died, leaving the whole family stunned.
おばあちゃんが突然死んで家族一同驚いた。
They were stunned after finding out about his resignation.
彼の辞任を知って、彼らは呆然とした。
The people around were stunned.
周りの人は呆然としていた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English stonen, stone (“to astonish, stun, numb”, also stoneyen), probably either directly or indirectly from Anglo-Norman estoner (“to stun, astonish”), from Late Latin *stunāre, from Frankish *stunōn (“to thunder, crash”) or perhaps from an unattested Latin *extonāre (“to thunder out, make a thunderous sound”), from tonāre ("to thunder"; compare Latin attonāre). An alternative etymology derives stonen from Old English stunian (“to smash, thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn. See also astonish, astound.