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Stupefying

adjective

1.

So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm. Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, staggering. "An astounding achievement" , "The amount of money required was staggering" , "Suffered a staggering defeat" , "The figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"

2.

Making physically stupid or dull or insensible. "The stupefying effects of hemp"

3.

Shocking with surprise and consternation.

Stupefy

verb

(past & past part. stupefied; pres. part. stupefying) (Written also stupify, especially in England)

1.

Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation. Synonym: besot.

2.

Be a mystery or bewildering to. Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex. "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"

3.

Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow. Synonym: stun.

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"Stupefying" Quotes from Famous Books

... His little son Willie sickened and died. Lincoln's relation to his children was very close, very tender. Many anecdotes show this boy frolicking about the White House, a licensed intruder everywhere. Another flood of anecdotes preserve the stupefying grief of his father after the child's death. Of these latter, the most extreme which portray Lincoln toward the close of February so unnerved as to be incapable of public duty, may be dismissed as apocryphal. But ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... dazed brains comprehended that fact. And he could not be missing either. After a minute that stupefying fact became ...

— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope

... he breathed seemed crisping his lungs. Vaguely, for the stupefying, brain-numbing heat, he wondered at the figure he saw dimly in its grotesque posturing close to the flames. And the hundreds of others—how could they live? How could he himself go on ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

... but as before, staring at the flower-bed in profound silence. When Tsvyetkov went up to her, and through the twilight glanced at her pale face, exhausted with grief, her expression was such as he had seen before during her attacks of acute, stupefying, sick headache. ...

— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... to be seen whether you are not the worst of fools. Perhaps," he continued, leaning back upon his seat, "perhaps you would oblige me with a few particulars. I must suppose you had some object in the stupefying impudence of your proceedings, and I confess I have ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

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