About The Word Stupefy
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Stupefy
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What's The Definition Of Stupefy?
[v] be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"
[v] make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [v] make dull or stupid; to muddle with drunkenness or infatuation Synonyms | Synonyms for Stupefy: amaze | baffle | beat | besot | bewilder | dumbfound | flummox | get | gravel | mystify | nonplus | perplex | pose | puzzle | stun | vex Related Terms | Find terms related to Stupefy: See Also | bedevil | befuddle | confound | confuse | desensitise | desensitize | discombobulate | elude | escape | figure out | fox | fuddle | immobilise | immobilize | lick | mix up | puzzle out | puzzle over | riddle | solve | stagger | stump | throw | work | work out Stupefy In Webster's Dictionary \Stu"pe*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stupefied}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stupefying}.] [F. stup['e]fier, fr. L. stupere to be
stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See
{Stupid}, {Fact}, and cf. {Stupefacient}.] [Written also
{stupify}, especially in England.]
1. 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.
--South.
2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
stupefied. --Bacon.
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