Stupefy \Stu"pe*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stupefied; p. pr. &
vb. n. Stupefying.] [F. stup['e]fier, fr. L. stupere to be
stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See
Stupid, Fact, and cf. Stupefacient.] [Written also
stupify, especially in England.]
1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of
perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility;
to make torpid.
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The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
--South.
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2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
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It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
stupefied. --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stupefy
v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or
infatuation [syn: besot]
2: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick,
get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder,
flummox, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
[syn: stun]
[also: stupefied]
WordNet (r) 2.0
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupefy":
KO, addle, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awe,
awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder,
blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, coldcock,
confound, daze, dazzle, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull,
dumbfound, dumbfounder, etherize, faze, flabbergast, freeze,
hebetate, horrify, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff,
knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, nonplus, numb, obtund,
overwhelm, palsy, paralyze, perplex, petrify, put to sleep, rattle,
scare stiff, scare to death, shock, stagger, startle, strike dead,
strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun,
surprise, terrify
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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