shell shock
noun
Origin of shell shock
Examples from the Web for shell-shocked
Contemporary Examples of shell-shocked
“God, please cure the regime,” says a shell-shocked Syrian woman.
When the towers fell, I was shell-shocked, struggling to find words.
The story of my life: when I lose, people are shell-shocked to see me play this way.
The entire nation is mourning the news, shell-shocked by images of wailing children fleeing the schools single file.
This is not the first election cycle in which Republicans have been shell-shocked by reality.
Historical Examples of shell-shocked
Horror has shell-shocked every one, civilians as well as fighting-men.
The Kingdom Round the CornerConingsby Dawson
Shell-shocked and buried; also gassed at second battle of Ypres.
A cousin who has been gassed and shell-shocked had come in to read to me.
Fanny Goes to WarPat Beauchamp
There you were shell-shocked, in the last months of the war.
The Sky Line of SpruceEdison Marshall
She was now sending it to a hospital for shell-shocked officers.