Stupefy
/ˈstuːpɪfaɪ/verb
To make someone unable to think or feel properly.
The shocking news seemed to stupefy her.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with surprise
- stupefy with shock
verb
To astonish someone so much they become temporarily speechless.
His arrogance completely stupefied me.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with arrogance
- stupefy with audacity
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To dull the senses or faculties of.
Intense pain seemed to stupefy him.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with pain
- stupefy with alcohol
verb
To make someone unable to think or feel properly.
The shocking news seemed to stupefy her.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with surprise
- stupefy with shock
verb
To astonish someone so much they become temporarily speechless.
His arrogance completely stupefied me.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with arrogance
- stupefy with audacity
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To dull the senses or faculties of.
Intense pain seemed to stupefy him.
Often appears as...
- stupefy with pain
- stupefy with alcohol
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Pro Tip 1/3Not Literally
Stupefy may not mean physically immobilize, but rather overwhelm someone's thoughts.
The magician's act will stupefy the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Effect
The effect of stupefying someone typically doesn't last long, it's momentary.
The crowd was stupefied by the sudden fireworks.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
Stupefy can be neutral and doesn't always suggest a negative impact.
His impressive knowledge on the topic could stupefy anyone.
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to becomes fascinating I think it was Darwin that used to say that attention if sudden and close graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement so I would encourage people just to just try their best to reorient what they pay attention to on a day-to-day basis and they'll
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The case against "good"...
How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives. I'll offer you "radiant," "stupefying," "awful," "gut-wrenching."
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
to becomes fascinating I think it was Darwin that used to say that attention if sudden and close graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement so I would encourage people just to just try their best to reorient what they pay attention to on a day-to-day basis and they'll
Video examples
The case against "good"...
How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives. I'll offer you "radiant," "stupefying," "awful," "gut-wrenching."
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Quote examples
Diane Ackerman
American Poet
The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.
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Mikhail Bakunin
Russian Revolutionary
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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Diane Ackerman
American Poet
The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.
Quote examples
Mikhail Bakunin
Russian Revolutionary
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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