stupefy

How To Use stupefy In A Sentence

• He doctored the wine with a stupefying dose.
• Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
• The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
• Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy.
• Sitting in a cubicle is "stupefying" and isolating, only intensifying a social need. Another Meeting?
• At the opposite pole to divine magic is the type that is playful and deceitful, thanks to which charlatans skillfully produce effects that stupefy ignorant people.
• When we consider just how disgusting and deplorable a crime like rape is on a person, I do not see that there is much difference between drugging people, stupefying them, or holding a knife to their throat.
• Gr. καρωτίδ-ες, f. καρούν ‘to plunge into deep sleep, to stupefy', because compression of these arteries is said to produce carus or stupor. Languagehat.com: SLEEPY CAROTID.
• It is a testament to the quality of the actors that they were able to wring rudimentary sympathy out of this stupefying script.
• He had to be careful the calm didn't stupefy him; make him forgetful of her. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW