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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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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