STUPEFY - 9 definitions found
stupefy v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: besot, stupefy] 2: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) stupefy transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stupēre to be astonished + facere to make, do — more at do Date: 15th century 1. to make stupid, groggy, or insensible 2. astonish, astound • stupefyingly adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary stupefy (stupefies, stupefying, stupefied) If something stupefies you, it shocks or surprises you so much that you cannot think properly for a while. (FORMAL) ...a violent slap on the side of the head, which stunned and stupefied him. VERB: V n English Explanatory Dictionary stupefy ˈstju:pɪfaɪ v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 make stupid or insensible (stupefied with drink). 2 stun with astonishment (the news was stupefying). øøstupefacient adj. & n. stupefaction n. stupefactive adj. stupefier n. stupefying adj. stupefyingly adv. [F stup÷fier f. L stupefacere f. stupere be amazed] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Stupefy \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms stupefy v. a. [Written also Stupify.] Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid make dull, make torpid. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 66 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupefy": KO, addle, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, coldcock, confound, daze, dazzle, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull, dumbfound, dumbfounder, etherize, faze, flabbergast, freeze, hebetate, horrify, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, nonplus, numb, obtund, overwhelm, palsy, paralyze, perplex, petrify, put to sleep, rattle, scare stiff, scare to death, shock, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, surprise, terrify |
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