Stun vs Astony - What's the difference?
stun | astony |
To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
To shock or surprise.
(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
The condition of being stunned.
(billiard, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
(label) To stun, paralyse, astound.
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*:thenne Brastias sawe his felawe ferd so with al / he smote the duke with a spere that hors & man fell doune / that sawe kyng Claryaunce and retorned vnto Brastias / and eyther smote other soo that hors & man wente to the erthe / and so they lay long astonyed / & their hors knees brast to the hard bone
*1526 , (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) VI:
*:And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.
*, Folio Society, 2006, p.10:
*:Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.
As verbs the difference between stun and astony
is that stun is to incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness while astony is (label) to stun, paralyse, astound.As a noun stun
is the condition of being stunned.stun
English
Verb
(stunn)- Bill tried to stun the snake by striking it on the head.
- In many European countries cattle have to be stunned before slaughtering.
- The celebrity was stunned to find herself confronted with unfounded allegiations on the front page of a newspaper.
- He stood there stunned , looking at the beautiful, breath-taking sunrise.