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What does shell-shocked mean?

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Adjective
  1. (dated) Stunned or mentally unbalanced by prolonged stress such as experienced in combat or under fire (shell-fire); suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  2. (figuratively) Confused as a result of a traumatic experience.
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The 12-year-old eponymous hero of the film, Daniel Radcliffe, looked shell-shocked by the hysteria which greeted his arrival at the premiere.
Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked World War One veteran, overhears people discussing the matter.
As he prepared his shell-shocked troops for life in the basement, his new broom approach was not to everyone's liking.
Even now, as I write, so many hours after the unspeakable incident, my mind still reels in shell-shocked horror and uncertainty.
Later he went abroad and the misfortunate wretch got shell-shocked in some foreign war.
The Conservatives are slowly coming out of the shell-shocked denial that followed the 1997 defeat.

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