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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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... and Joan watched. His face grew pale and bright as though some electric current had been turned into his veins; his eyes, looking up from the writing, but not returning to her, had the look given by some drug which is meant to stupefy, but which taken in an overdose intoxicates. He turned and made for the door, holding the little gray folded paper in his hand. On the threshold he half-faced her without ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

Words linked to "Stupefy" : confuse, besot, perplex, mix up, desensitise, fox, elude, pose, desensitize, vex, beat, get, immobilize, bewilder, amaze, throw, mystify, confound, befuddle, immobilise, nonplus, flummox, discombobulate