6 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stupefied \Stu"pe*fied\, adjective
Having been made stupid.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stupefy \Stu"pe*fy\, verb (used with an object) [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.
The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
--South.
2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
stupefied. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stupefy
verb
1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or
infatuation [syn: {besot}]
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}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
[syn: {stun}]
[also: {stupefied}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stupefied
adjective
1: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle
of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of
having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen
were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of
his promotion" [syn: {dumbfounded}, {dumfounded}, {flabbergasted},
{thunderstruck}]
2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was
stupid from fatigue" [syn: {dazed}, {stunned}, {stupid(p)}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stupefied
See {stupefy}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupefied":
Laodicean, Olympian, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, aloof, amazed,
apathetic, appalled, ashen, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed,
awestricken, awestruck, beguiled, benumbed, bewildered, bewitched,
blah, blanched, blase, breathless, captivated, comatose,
confounded, cowed, dazed, deadly pale, desensitized, detached,
disinterested, dull, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted,
enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated,
flabbergasted, frozen, gaping, gauping, gazing, gray with fear,
heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, horrified, horror-struck,
hypnotized, in a stupor, in awe, in awe of, indifferent,
insouciant, intimidated, languid, lethargic, listless,
lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, nonchalant, numb, numbed,
open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, pale as death, pallid,
paralyzed, passive, petrified, phlegmatic, pluckless, popeyed,
puzzled, rapt in wonder, resigned, scared stiff, scared to death,
slack, sluggish, soporific, spellbound, spiritless, spunkless,
staggered, staring, stoic, stunned, supine, surprised, terrified,
terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven,
terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled,
thunderstruck, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, under a charm,
undone, uninterested, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wide-eyed,
withdrawn, wonder-struck, wondering