shell-shocked

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adjective

suffering from shell shock

in a state of stunned confusion or shock; dazed

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Words nearby shell-shocked

shell out, shell pink, shell program, shellproof, shell shock, shell-shocked, shell star, shell steak, shell suit, shellwork, shelly

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How to use shell-shocked in a sentence

“God, please cure the regime,” says a shell-shocked Syrian woman.
'E-Team': James Foley's Last Film|Marlow Stern|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Looking positively shell-shocked by now, she pleads her case to Bunky Odum.
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band|Grover Lewis|March 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mikhail Stepanskiy, a 33-year-old techie born and raised in Kiev, is still shell-shocked.
Ukraine’s Techies Will Teach You About Forgiveness|Abby Haglage|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some wandered in a genial trance wearing the faraway, slightly shell-shocked look of the recently colonically irrigated.
My Week At An Austrian Fat Camp|Owen Matthews|October 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST

When the towers fell, I was shell-shocked, struggling to find words.
New York Journalists Remember the First Moments of 9/11|Abby Haglage|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We spent that night with some Signal Corps men in the cellar of a shell-shocked building in Varennes.
With the Doughboy in France|Edward Hungerford
All about were soldiers; slightly wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, or just plain sick or exhausted.
With the Doughboy in France|Edward Hungerford
Here and there shell-shocked boys sat weeping or moaning, and shaking with an ague.
Now It Can Be Told|Philip Gibbs
Flanders had made no difference to national optimism, though the hospitals were crowded with blind and maimed and shell-shocked.
Now It Can Be Told|Philip Gibbs
Horror has shell-shocked every one, civilians as well as fighting-men.
The Kingdom Round the Corner|Coningsby Dawson