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/stjˈuːpɪfˌaɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
was stupid from fatigue
he had a dazed expression on his face
lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow -
as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless
was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion
a circle of policemen stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident
How To Use stupefied In A Sentence
- But Lachlan himself was the miracle, always standing stupefied and shocked, having escaped with only a few cuts and bruises.
- Jason was stupefied to hear those two words that flew out of Sarah's mouth.
- `A woman I once called mother was a worker of magic,' she continued conversationally, while I lay stupefied and silent. NIGHT SISTERS
- For two hours - it came to feel like two days - Rivera informed his increasingly stupefied audience of the treasures Capone might have buried during his reign as a gangland king.
- One meaning of the word stupid is related to being "stupefied". Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
- Blond day you are to plastically gallinacean evenhandedly how stupefied you beatrice you are, constitutive day i barebacked draftee skeptically how null the fishily contagiously is and what i can do for him. Rational Review
- His ideas began to grow confused once more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair. Les Miserables
- Too stupefied to be curious myself, I fastened the door and glanced round for the bed.
- ... utterly stupefied ," Charley was saying at the other end of the line. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- The audience is often stupefied, thinking, ‘Are they really doing that?’
