'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'

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