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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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37 words match “STUPEFY”

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

HOCUS v. 2 definitions

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

KNOCK-OUT DROPS n.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

To confuse; to stupefy. [Obs.] Holland.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.

Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.

the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logica…

To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. [R.] I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted. Dryden.

STUPEFACTION n.

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. [Written also stupifaction.] Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.

One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.

Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.