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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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Comic Tom O'Connor looked slightly shell-shocked as he was driven home.

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Jake White's men were shell-shocked and couldn't get a foothold at all.

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He wore the haggard shell-shocked expression everyone wears after leaving transit.

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In the early 2000s, I was a budding feminist, college student, and somewhat shell-shocked consumer of popular culture.

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A drive through Syria’s coast and the nearby mountains reveals a string of shell-shocked communities, with the electric tension of potential violence felt at every checkpoint.

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