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verb

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

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. "The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain."

To deprive of material mobility. (Obs.) "It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied."

adjective

Stupefied adj. Having been made stupid.

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Etymology of 'Stupefied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stupefied" Quotes from Famous Books

... It stupefied me, perhaps; I cannot remember how we went to the neighbor's house or who welcomed us or how we got into the room on the second floor, with a candle burning on the bureau. I noticed how small and ridiculous the flame was and laughed. Indeed, I think when I laughed, ...

— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child

... continued, 'that she has not been well for several days, but that she was unwilling to remain from school. She came home yesterday afternoon, it seems, very unlike herself. She took no supper, but sat at the table silently, as if stupefied with grief. ...

— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various

... shocks or malaria. The man was handsome in a primitive way—worlds beneath the girl, who was simply and tragically a lady. Father sat in the same car with them, opposite their section. It grew upon him by degrees that she was slowly awakening, as one who has been drugged, to a stupefied consciousness of her situation. He thought there might still be room for help at the crisis of her return to reason (I mean all this in a spiritual sense), and so he kept near them. They talked but little together. The girl seemed stunned, as I say, by physical ...

— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

... lifted her stupefied head.... Her father, with the face of a cornered fox!... She caught her breath with the shock of it. Her lips parted, but only her mute ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... the handleless gun as if stupefied. Then his amazed glance fell upon the stranger, who was smiling easily through the flickering ...

— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

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