Concussed

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of concuss form-of, participle, past

    "The blow concussed him."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Knocked out; temporarily confused or unconscious due to a blow to the head.

    "But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning."

Example

More examples

"Mary found herself, rather unfortunately, concussed."

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