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1
suffering from high levels of physical and especially psychological stress
- even after the long furlough, the returning soldiers still felt a little shell-shocked
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2
suffering from mental confusion
- shell-shocked survivors who were in dire need of every kind of help
Synonyms for shell-shocked
- addle,
- addled,
- addlepated,
- bedeviled,
- befogged,
- befuddled,
- bemused,
- bewildered,
- bushed
- [chiefly Australian],
- confounded,
- confused,
- dazed,
- distracted,
- dizzy,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- fogged,
- mixed-up,
- muddleheaded,
- muzzy,
- pixilated
- (also pixillated),
- punch-drunk,
- punchy,
- raddled,
- silly,
- slaphappy,
- spaced-out
- (or spaced),
- spacey
- (also spacy),
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- zonked,
- zonked-out
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