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shell-shocked

adjective

  1. suffering from shell shock
  2. in a state of stunned confusion or shock; dazed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

But when Al Fayed turned up at the apartment, she said she was "gobsmacked", "shell-shocked" and did not know what to do.

From BBC

“This one was especially excruciating,” Moss said, shell-shocked, from the postgame podium.

Shell-shocked residents gathered in the lobby and other communal areas, as they tried to make sense of what had happened, and who they had lost, in hushed conversations.

From BBC

Trump attacks again and again until his target is left shell-shocked.

From Salon

Still McVay, perhaps shell-shocked from the previous weeks, steeled himself for a possible change.

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