aturdir

From Spanish aturdir.

aturdir (first-person singular present aturdo, first-person singular preterite aturdi, past participle aturdido)

1. (transitive) to stun; to shock; to surprise

   Synonyms: assombrar, surpreender, atordoar

2. (transitive) to stun (to incapacitate by inducing disorientation)

   Synonym: atordoar

From older atordir, from a- + tordo (“thrush”) + -ir, based on the similarity between the thrush's flight and the scrambled movement of someone who has been dazed or stunned (compare French étourdir).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /atuɾˈdiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tur‧dir

aturdir (first-person singular present aturdo, first-person singular preterite aturdí, past participle aturdido)

1. to stun, to daze, to dumbfound

• “aturdir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10