Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (someone) to be unable to think clearly or be sensitive to the surroundings; daze.
- transitive verb To amaze; astonish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make stupid or torpid; blunt the faculties of: deprive of sensibility by any means; make dull or dead to external influences: as, to be stupefied by a blow on the head, by strong drink, or by grief.
- To deprive of mobility: said of a substance or material.
- To become stupid or torpid; lose interest or sensibility; grow dull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
- transitive verb obsolete To deprive of material mobility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
dull thesenses orcapacity tothink therebyreducing responsiveness ; todazzle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
- verb make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
- verb make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of course, I aim to stupefy, which is why I've posted the one track that's probably the most different from the original.
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He is accused of using date rape drugs dissolved in champagne to "stupefy" his victims before attacking them in the back of the cab.
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John Worboys is accused of using date rape drugs dissolved in champagne to "stupefy" his victims before attacking them in the back of the cab.
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Here now, a hot factoid of curious news that will stupefy your parents and confound any extant grandparents and make many fundamentalists and most Mormons clutch their dogmas to their quivering breasts in mild but surefire panic.
Mark Morford: May You Now Live in Sin Forevermore Mark Morford 2011
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Six Missouri republicans -- "the stupefy me six," let's call them -- are hard at work trying to make Missouri kids stupid.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Missouri, The 'Stupefy Me' State? Shawn Lawrence Otto 2012
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In a thematic follow-up to the Food Court Musical, the merrymakers headed to a grocery store to stupefy and delight its patrons.
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Here now, a hot factoid of curious news that will stupefy your parents and confound any extant grandparents and make many fundamentalists and most Mormons clutch their dogmas to their quivering breasts in mild but surefire panic.
Mark Morford: May You Now Live in Sin Forevermore Mark Morford 2011
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Here now, a hot factoid of curious news that will stupefy your parents and confound any extant grandparents and make many fundamentalists and most Mormons clutch their dogmas to their quivering breasts in mild but surefire panic.
Mark Morford: May You Now Live in Sin Forevermore Mark Morford 2011
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Here now, a hot factoid of curious news that will stupefy your parents and confound any extant grandparents and make many fundamentalists and most Mormons clutch their dogmas to their quivering breasts in mild but surefire panic.
Mark Morford: May You Now Live in Sin Forevermore Mark Morford 2011
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Six Missouri republicans -- "the stupefy me six," let's call them -- are hard at work trying to make Missouri kids stupid.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Missouri, The 'Stupefy Me' State? Shawn Lawrence Otto 2012
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