stupefy

stupefy
    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}]
    

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.
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            The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
                                                  --South.
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   2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
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            It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
            stupefied.                            --Bacon.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupefy":
      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