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остолбеневший adj.stresses
gen. stockstill; spacey; stuporous; transfixed (от удивления, страха и т.д. Alex_Sereb)
fig. frozen solid (от ужаса, шока: "He told me how, on one particular Saturday afternoon, he sat near the water's edge (...), when he was "literally frozen solid" by the sight of "‘what at first I thought was a big log floating down the cut, about sixty or seventy feet away." (...) As it got closer, Bell was both astonished and horrified to see a large "dark brown and black colored" eel or snake-like creature – possibly ten feet in length or a little bit more – moving slowly in the water, with its head – that "looked like a black sheep" – flicking rapidly from side to side." mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver)
slang spacy
остолбенеть v
gen. petrify; be rooted to the spot (Anglophile); stop in tracks (He opened the door and stopped in his tracks: a complete stranger was sitting in his office. Баян); deer in headlights (sever_korrespondent); freeze (from terror, shock, etc.); fuck up; stop dead
Игорь Миг be blown away
amer., inf. choke up
Gruzovik, inf. be rooted to the ground (pf of столбенеть)
inf. be flabbergasted (Andrey Truhachev); stand transfixed (Andrey Truhachev)
Makarov. be dumbfounded
psychol. be paralyzed (Andrey Truhachev)
остолбеневший: 5 phrases in 2 subjects
General4
Psychology1