Stupefied

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stupefied \Stu"pe*fied\, a.
     Having been made stupid.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
                                                    --South.
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     2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
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              It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
              stupefied.                            --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupefy
       v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or
            infatuation [syn: {besot}]
       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}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
       3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
          [syn: {stun}]
       [also: {stupefied}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupefied
       adj 1: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle
              of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of
              having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen
              were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of
              his promotion" [syn: {dumbfounded}, {dumfounded}, {flabbergasted},
               {thunderstruck}]
       2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
          shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
          semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was
          stupid from fatigue" [syn: {dazed}, {stunned}, {stupid(p)}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupefied
       See {stupefy}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupefied":
     Laodicean, Olympian, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, aloof, amazed,
     apathetic, appalled, ashen, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed,
     awestricken, awestruck, beguiled, benumbed, bewildered, bewitched,
     blah, blanched, blase, breathless, captivated, comatose,
     confounded, cowed, dazed, deadly pale, desensitized, detached,
     disinterested, dull, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted,
     enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated,
     flabbergasted, frozen, gaping, gauping, gazing, gray with fear,
     heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, horrified, horror-struck,
     hypnotized, in a stupor, in awe, in awe of, indifferent,
     insouciant, intimidated, languid, lethargic, listless,
     lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, nonchalant, numb, numbed,
     open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, pale as death, pallid,
     paralyzed, passive, petrified, phlegmatic, pluckless, popeyed,
     puzzled, rapt in wonder, resigned, scared stiff, scared to death,
     slack, sluggish, soporific, spellbound, spiritless, spunkless,
     staggered, staring, stoic, stunned, supine, surprised, terrified,
     terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven,
     terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled,
     thunderstruck, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, under a charm,
     undone, uninterested, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wide-eyed,
     withdrawn, wonder-struck, wondering