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Definition: 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.
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The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
--South.
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2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
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It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but
stupefied. --Bacon.
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