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Stun

To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Immobilize 76% connected

To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

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Daze 92% connected

To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stupefy 92% connected

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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