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UK
/stjˈuːpɪfˌaɪ/
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VERB
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be a mystery or bewildering to
Got me--I don't know the answer!
This beats me!
a vexing problem
This question really stuck me - make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
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make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
stun fish
How To Use stupefy In A Sentence
- This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
- My research tells me that "plonking" may be defined as the art of making the utterly obvious stupefyingly clear! Recession, Inflation and Energy
- The controls are stupefyingly simple; swipe up to jump, left or right or turn, down to slide under stuff.
- It felt good to rise to motion after the long hours inside Niigata's stupefying catafalque. FLOATING CITY
- I felt rather sorry for him, having to find out stuff like this, and after going through my own share of shocks, I knew just how mind-wracking and stupefying this could be.
- Caught up, willy-nilly, in lawlessness of a sort were also numberless worthy members of the public, who faced a stupefying barrage of emergency laws passed on sumptuary, economic and security grounds.
- Amuse" sounds like anthropomorphizing, of course--it's an interesting word, comes from the French amuser, "to stupefy"--we're most amused when our brains are buggy. Lightning bug
- the stupefying effects of hemp
- the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying
- The Tribunal had found it "stupefying" that security had depended on Haradinaj, a war criminal. for the Tribunal's witnesses, there was great concern, and the friendship between WN.com - Photown News