Meaning of STUPEFY
| Pronunciation: | | 'stoopu`fI
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | amaze, baffle, beat, besot, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stun, vex |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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