Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by stupor; having stupor as a conspicuous symptom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having slow or confused
reactions , as if in astupor ;groggy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
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Examples
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A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.
Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010
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A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.
Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010
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A heavy drinker may have been rousable, but would have been "stuporous," unlikely to have the coordination necessary to carry out three murders involving multiple stabbings and bludgeonings.
Reason Magazine Radley Balko 2010
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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It works only up to a point: The point at which the taskmasters reduce the work force to stuporous failure or rebellion.
Not precisely the Quote of the Day, William Murchison edition. | RedState 2010
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Little, Big by John Crowley (the Methuen papepback edition had such a minuscule text size causing both splitting headache and stuporous sleep, so I had to get a standard pb copy)
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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From a cowed and stuporous people, what seems like Nothing, comes a spark -- and the world glows and grows with light.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Secret Blessing Of The Hebrew Calendar's Extra Adar Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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From a cowed and stuporous people, what seems like Nothing, comes a spark -- and the world glows and grows with light.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Secret Blessing Of The Hebrew Calendar's Extra Adar Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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