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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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Razanasoa Edmondine still looks shell-shocked as she recalls the death of her one-month-old grandson, killed by police tear gas in protests that have rocked Madagascar over the last two weeks.

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It left Reid, twice a league winner in his playing days with Everton, "shell-shocked".

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But that was back in the early days of the Department of Government Efficiency purges, and the party was still a bit shell-shocked.

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Passengers on a train have been left shell-shocked after a crab snapped up a seat.

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As a shell-shocked WWI soldier, Henry wrote from the trenches a letter decrying the war’s brutality; working in the censor’s office, Julia read it and responded.

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