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What (who) is Stupefy - definition
Stupefy
·vt To deprive of material mobility.
II. Stupefy ·vt To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
stupefy
v. a.
[Written also Stupify.] Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid make dull, make torpid.
stupefy
['stju:p?f??]
¦ verb (stupefies, stupefying, stupefied)
1. make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.
2. astonish and shock.
Derivatives
stupefaction noun
stupefier noun
stupefying adjective
stupefyingly adverb
Origin
ME: from Fr. stupefier, from L. stupefacere, from stupere 'be struck senseless'.
Examples of use of Stupefy
1. With more celebrity blah, Channel 4 has trumped BBC‘s Commonwealth Games bid to stupefy a nation.
2. The creators of the series, talented and very sophisticated television people, use advanced technology to satisfy the same urges, anxieties and desires as in previous centuries to stupefy an audience they see as the ignorant masses.