What's the difference between shattered and stunned?

Shattered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shatter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sacked Cronulla star Todd Carney said he was shattered when he learned a picture of him urinating in his own mouth in a nightclub toilet had been posted on social media.
  • (2) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (3) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
  • (4) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
  • (5) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (6) Glasgow Central station was also closed to the public after flying debris shattered part of the building's glass roof.
  • (7) Speaking to the Guardian, Ghavami’s brother Iman, 28, said the family felt “shattered” by the court verdict.
  • (8) While Goma did not experience the worst of the fighting, the M23 movement diverted government funds away from the provision of basic services and shattered hopes of a lasting peace.
  • (9) Whether the issue is homosexuality, divorce, abortion, euthanasia or equal marriage, religion has the power to shatter party discipline.
  • (10) I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but I know someday someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now,” she added.
  • (11) The bombings shattered more than two months of relative calm across the restive country.
  • (12) Bishop is also visiting a country that is still enduring the ongoing trauma associated with the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami and the worst nuclear disaster of modern times – a disaster that, three years on, has left the region comprised of ghost towns and shattered lives.
  • (13) Most of the economic news since the idea of more QE was first floated in August has been better than expected, if not exactly earth-shattering.
  • (14) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
  • (15) • • • In real life, I knew a man once who was the exact opposite of The Red Pill in every regard, and he shattered everything that I believed I knew about men.
  • (16) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (17) That split came about after Murdoch's newspaper business was shattered by the hacking scandal that rocked his empire and led to the arrest of some of his closest allies and his public humiliation.
  • (18) "The only glass ceiling that remains is in the process of shattering, and that is that we cannot show what we can do, we don't have a record.
  • (19) The fragile truce between José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger has finally been shattered after the Chelsea manager denounced his counterpart at Arsenal as "a specialist in failure".
  • (20) For Ali, the Kenyan court case aims to shatter the notion that rape can be carried out with impunity.

Stunned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stun

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
  • (2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
  • (4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
  • (5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
  • (6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
  • (8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
  • (9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
  • (10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
  • (11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
  • (12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
  • (13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
  • (14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
  • (15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
  • (16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
  • (17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
  • (18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
  • (19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
  • (20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.