Definition of "poleaxed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of poleaxe. (verb)

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• "One writer on the Daily Kos site, for instance, worried that any progressive candidate who might supplant Bean in the primary (let alone challenge her in the general election) would get "poleaxed" - lovely word - by the Republican."
• "Whem my 250 speer handload from a 350 rem mag hit he went down like he was poleaxed with a broken neck."
• "Alienated from the start, Kinnear then shows a man shocked and poleaxed by the news of his father's murder."