Stupor
['stjuːpə] or ['stupɚ]
Definition
(n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
(n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Edited by Blair
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lethargy, torpor, numbness, stupefaction, COMA.
Typist: Nathaniel
Definition
n. the state of being struck senseless: suspension of sense either complete or partial: insensibility intellectual or moral: excessive amazement or astonishment.—adj. Stū′porous.
Edited by Eva
Examples
- A kind of pleasant stupor was stealing over me as I sat by the genial fire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After a short relapse into sleep or stupor, he makes, of a sudden, a strong effort to get out of bed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Did you ever see such a stupor as he falls into, between drink and sleep? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hunter, on recovering from his stupor, was also quite positive as to the ownership of the cravat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Instead of stupor, came excitement. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She lay in that heavy stupor, alike unconscious of hope and joy, doubt and danger. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Lucie had, by that time, fallen into a stupor on the floor at his feet, clinging to his hand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A kind of stupor followed my fainting; my senses were alive, but memory was extinct. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His medicines had failed;the fever was unabated; and Marianne only more quietnot more herselfremained in a heavy stupor. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But he lay quiet, half in stupor, half in sleep. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At night when Margaret realised this, she felt inclined to sit down in a stupor of despair. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Jo is in a sleep or in a stupor to-day, and Allan Woodcourt, newly arrived, stands by him, looking down upon his wasted form. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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