Difference between Stunned and Out

What is the difference between Stunned and Out?

Stunned as a verb is to incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness. while Out as a verb is away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.

Stunned

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

Example sentence: I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

Out

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.Away from; at a distance.Away from the inside or the centre.Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.Used to intensify or emphasize.Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: Away from the inside.Away from the center.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play because the defending team threw the baseball past the batter three times in the strike zone, fielded a ball hit in the air, or fielded a ball hit to the ground and moved the ball to a defender blocking the runner's ability to move from base to base.A card which can make a hand a winner.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.To reveal (a person) as having a certain secret.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

Example sentence: A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

We hope you now know whether to use Stunned or Out in your sentence.

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