Stupefy
['stjuːpɪfaɪ] or ['stupɪfaɪ]
Definition
(v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
(v. t.) To deprive of material mobility.
Checked by Francis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid, make dull, make torpid.
Typist: Wanda
Definition
v.t. to make stupid or senseless: to deaden the perception: to deprive of sensibility:—pa.t. and pa.p. stū′pefied.—adj. Stūpefā′cient stupefying.—n. anything that stupefies a narcotic drug.—n. Stūpefac′tion the act of making stupid or senseless: insensibility: stupidity.—adj. Stūpefac′tive causing stupefaction or insensibility.—ns. Stū′pefīedness; Stū′pefīer.—adj. Stū′pent struck with stupor.
Typed by Justine
Examples
- Don't stay and stupefy yourself at home to-night, my dear, she would say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Under any other circumstances, the drink would simply stupefy me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I thought the influence of opium was first to stupefy you, and then to send you to sleep. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She was an altered creature, quieted, stupefied, indifferent to everything that passed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Oliver felt stunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Venn gathered them up, arose, and withdrew from the hollow, Wildeve sitting stupefied. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I believe I should have been almost stupefied but for one circumstance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think he must have got from Riderhood in a paper, the drug, or whatever it was, that afterwards stupefied me, but I am far from sure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Just as forlorn and stupefied as I was when my husband's spirit flew away I have sat ever since--never attempting to mend matters at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When Gudrun was gone, he was left stupefied with arrested desire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is as much as I can do to comprehend this stupefying fact. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A curious and stupefying restlessness got possession of me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He journeyed onward, not quickly or decisively, but in the slow walk of one who has been awakened from a stupefying sleep. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Sasha