Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which stupefies, or makes insensible or stupid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something that
stupefies .
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Examples
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That is a poisoner, a stupefier, a traitor to the nervous system, and, consequently, to energy and the spirit of enterprise, which I renounced once and for ever before I reached my twentieth year.
Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade
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Thou art the stupefier of Daitya ranks in the field of battle.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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-- Time who is the great stupefier of all things, and who is armed with very great and irresistible force, issuing from the great Ordainer himself.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Whether the natural phlegm of this island needs any additional stupefier?
Querist George Berkeley 1719
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