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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUPEFY, v.t. [L.]
1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive of sensibility. It is a great sin to attempt to stupefy the conscience.
The fumes of passion intoxicate his discerning faculties, as the fumes of drink stupefy the brain.
2. To deprive of material motion.
It is not malleable nor fluent, but stupefied. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: besot, stupefy]
2: 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]
3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English stupifien, modification of Latin stupefacere, from stup?re to be astonished + facere to make, do — more at do Date: 15th century 1. to make stupid, groggy, or insensible 2. astonish, astound • stupefyingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 make stupid or insensible (stupefied with drink). 2 stun with astonishment (the news was stupefying). Derivatives: stupefacient adj. & n. stupefaction n. stupefactive adj. stupefier n. stupefying adj. stupefyingly adv. Etymology: F stupéfier f. L stupefacere f. stupere be amazed

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stupefies, stupefying, stupefied) If something stupefies you, it shocks or surprises you so much that you cannot think properly for a while. (FORMAL) ...a violent slap on the side of the head, which stunned and stupefied him. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. [Written also Stupify.] Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid make dull, make torpid.

Moby Thesaurus

KO, addle, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, coldcock, confound, daze, dazzle, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull, dumbfound, dumbfounder, etherize, faze, flabbergast, freeze, hebetate, horrify, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, nonplus, numb, obtund, overwhelm, palsy, paralyze, perplex, petrify, put to sleep, rattle, scare stiff, scare to death, shock, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, surprise, terrify