'Stupefy' definitions:
Definition of 'stupefy'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: besot, stupefy]
verb
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]
verb
Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy]
Definition of 'Stupefy'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stupefy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- KO,
- 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