punch drunk en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head.
The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful blow.
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(not-comparable) Behaving in a bewildered or dazed manner, especially due to repeated negative events.
We've become so accustomed to the word 'billions' over the last ten months that we've become punch drunk about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has really cost us all.
2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:
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sv groggy (dizzy from blows to the head) · pl skołowany (dizzy from blows to the head) · sv boxardement (dizzy from blows to the head) · sv omtöcknad (dizzy from blows to the head) · sv dimmig (dizzy from blows to the head) · bg зашеметен (dizzy from blows to the head) · sv vimmelkantig (dizzy from blows to the head)