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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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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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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.

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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.

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Afterwards, she was able to schedule her shifts with a friend for a month because she felt "a bit shell-shocked".

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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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