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37 words match “STUPEFY”

STUPEFY v. 2 definitions
standing in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.
OBSTUPEFY v.
See Stupefy. [Obs.]
AMAZE v.
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.
ASTON; ASTONE v.
To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ASTOUND v.
To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax.
ASWEVE v.
To stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BEMUDDLE v.
To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
BEMUSE v.
To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.
BENUMB v.
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.
BESOT v.
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.
DAZE v.
To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.…
DEAVE v.
To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]
DOPE n. 2 definitions
Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [Slang or Cant]
DOZE v.
To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.] I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Pepys. They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. South.
DRUG v.
To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig. The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.
DULL v.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. Trench.
DWALE n.
The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.
FASCINATE v.
; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).
FOX v.
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. Pepys.
GOWK v.
To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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