"gut punch" meaning in English

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        "A hard hit to the stomach."
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        "(literally) A hard hit to the stomach."
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          "ref": "1991, D. L. Carey, Distant Drums - Volume 1, page 523:",
          "text": "Now their powder would be cannon powder and gun powder, would be made into canister shot, and would propel balls into flesh, and would blow living men to shreds. The whole idea was a gut punch.",
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          "ref": "2001, The Weekly Japan Digest, Volume 12, Issues 16-28, p. 7",
          "text": "Mizuho denied it, but the report was a gut punch for the stock market, where the Nikkei average sank 189 points or 1.5% Wednesday, and retreated another 22 points today to close at 12,607."
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          "ref": "2019, Marcus Thompson, KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest, page 2:",
          "text": "So when he died—on June 19, 1986, from a cocaine overdose, two days after being selected No. 2 overall in the NBA Draft—it was a gut punch for the whole region.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "The president’s visit to Ukraine was a gut punch to the Russian leader.",
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        "Something that shocks and upsets someone to the degree that it causes the recipient to feel physically affected."
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        "(figurative) Something that shocks and upsets someone to the degree that it causes the recipient to feel physically affected."
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  "word": "gut punch"
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        "(literally) A hard hit to the stomach."
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          "ref": "2019, Marcus Thompson, KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest, page 2:",
          "text": "So when he died—on June 19, 1986, from a cocaine overdose, two days after being selected No. 2 overall in the NBA Draft—it was a gut punch for the whole region.",
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        "(figurative) Something that shocks and upsets someone to the degree that it causes the recipient to feel physically affected."
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