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Meanings of stupefy in English

Portuguese
atordoar

Be a mystery or bewildering to.

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      atordoar
      Spanish
      embrutecerse

      Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.

            embrutecerse
            Catalan
            atordir
            Spanish
            aturdir

            Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.

                  atordir
                  Usage of stupefy in English
                  1
                  You stupefy and bewilder her with your eternal tattling and roundabout harangues.
                  Marriage
                  2
                  Religion seems to have no other object, than to stupefy the mind.
                  Good Sense
                  3
                  Somebody might have thought to stupefy Mr. Langmore and then rob him.
                  The Mansion of Mystery / Being a Certain Case of Importance, Tak...
                  4
                  All these things seemed to dull and stupefy me rather than excite.
                  The Way of a Man
                  5
                  He is usually satisfied to stupefy, rob, and then leave his victim.
                  The Poisoned Pen
                  6
                  A way to stupefy the credulous, he knew, but done damn well.
                  Serena
                  7
                  I am aware that much in this book will enrage or stupefy some.
                  The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
                  8
                  By his Yoga-power, even thus did that Brahmana stupefy the king.
                  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
                  9
                  It's the absinthe of the artist-andthey'll stupefy you with it.
                  The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
                  10
                  He did not like whiskey, but he drank to stupefy himself.
                  Of Human Bondage
                  11
                  But woman, if she will, can drug and stupefy this feeling.
                  Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
                  12
                  But his agony demands full endurance; it does not even stupefy those it assails.
                  The New Book of Martyrs
                  13
                  The effect is to stupefy and sometimes kill the fish.
                  Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
                  14
                  There were moments when the temptation to stupefy himself with drink was almost irresistible.
                  The Coming of Bill
                  15
                  Under any other circumstances, the drink would simply stupefy me.
                  The Moonstone
                  16
                  The President of the Weldon Institute was stupefied; his companion was astonished.
                  Robur the Conqueror
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                  Translations for stupefy
                  Portuguese
                  atordoar
                  Catalan
                  atordir
                  Stupefy through the time
                  Stupefy across language varieties
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