- stupify
- Stupefy Stu"pe*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stupefied}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stupefying}.] [F. stup['e]fier, fr. L. stupere to be
stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See
{Stupid}, {Fact}, and cf. {Stupefacient}.] [Written also
{stupify}, especially in England.]
1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of
perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility;
to make torpid.
[1913 Webster]
The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. --South. [1913 Webster]
2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
