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shell-shocked
adjective
- suffering from shell shock
- in a state of stunned confusion or shock; dazed
Example Sentences
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.
Her appointment was seen at the time as "a sentimental appointment by a shell-shocked family," the Guardian's fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley wrote.
He recalls the faces around him immediately after the incident, the "shell-shocked" looks, the sense of helplessness when he could not feel his arms and legs, and waking up in the back of an ambulance after "blacking out" before being resuscitated.
Afterwards, she was able to schedule her shifts with a friend for a month because she felt "a bit shell-shocked".
That day England's players sat in silence in a shell-shocked dressing room as the baying crowd shook the foundations of the stadium above them.
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