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Stupefy v. t. (past & past part. stupefied; pres. part. stupefying) (Written also stupify, especially in England)

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."

To deprive of material mobility. (Obs.) "It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied."

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"Stupefy" Quotes from Famous Books

... finish my memorial regarding the loan for the hospital for sick bumble-bees, when this torment of a Slyboots comes up, and looking over my shoulder, exclaims, 'What! my lord; surely you are not going to stupefy the Queen with the odious sick bumble-bee memorial to-night, are ...

— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

... asylum. Look at Peter Kralik; when he was a boy, drinking out of a creek, he swallowed a snake, and always after that he could eat only such food as the creature liked, for when he ate anything else, it became enraged and gnawed him. When he felt it whipping about in him, he drank alcohol to stupefy it and get some ease for himself. He could work as good as any man, and his head was clear, but they locked him up for being different in his stomach. That is the way; they have built the asylum for people who are different, and they will not even let ...

— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather

... loading yesterday at four o'clock you meant to use in murdering the Councillor of State; but we can't take you up for that—plenty of intention, but no witnesses. You managed, I don't know how, to stupefy Violette, and you and your wife and that young rascal of yours spent the night out of doors to warn Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne and save her cousins, whom you are hiding here,—though I don't as yet know where. Your son or your ...

— An Historical Mystery • Honore de Balzac

... the "Hotel de Belle Vue," at the Hague, as comfortable, as handsome, as cheerful as any I ever took mine ease in. And the Bavarian beer, my dear friend, how good and brisk and light it is! Take another glass—it refreshes and does not stupefy—and then we will sally out, and see the town and the ...

— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray

... what do you drink yourself then, to be able all alone by yourself to dumbfound and stupefy the city so ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

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