Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.
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Examples for "stupefy "
Examples for "stupefy "
1 You stupefy and bewilder her with your eternal tattling and roundabout harangues.
2 Religion seems to have no other object, than to stupefy the mind.
3 Somebody might have thought to stupefy Mr. Langmore and then rob him.
4 All these things seemed to dull and stupefy me rather than excite.
5 He is usually satisfied to stupefy , rob, and then leave his victim.
1 Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
2 Does ambition besot and blind men?
3 The New Yorker, May 17, 1952 P. 30 The blossoms that besot the bee View Article
4 However, it seems like these two are beyond besotted with each other.
5 Negroes and mulattoes were drinking there, intoxicating and besotting themselves, and fraternising.
6 Eventually Marilyn departs, leaving a bewitched and besotted Colin in her wake.
7 The old man was already besotted ; now, he was bordering on obsession.
8 Are you a fool, or have you grown besotted in your age?
9 He was besotted with her, but she did not care for him.'
10 This is an ANC party besotted by internal divide and factions.
11 You can imagine how this went down with a cricket - besotted 12-year-old.
12 I'm a drunken, chemical - besotted playboy who does nothing but cavort, sleep, and feed.
13 But I think he was always going to be besotted with this woman.
14 That's how I knew she was besotted with me, Eirik explained.
15 It sounded as if the Queen was deeply in thrall to him - or besotted .
16 We may have been stupid, besotted , infatuated even, in our blindness and incredulity.
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