STUPEFY

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.


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