How To Use Stupefy In A Sentence
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He doctored the wine with a stupefying dose.
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Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
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The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
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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.
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Sitting in a cubicle is "stupefying" and isolating, only intensifying a social need.
Another Meeting?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is a testament to the quality of the actors that they were able to wring rudimentary sympathy out of this stupefying script.
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He had to be careful the calm didn't stupefy him; make him forgetful of her.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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He says I'm a creative person and the last thing I should do is stupefy myself with drugs.
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The film unfolds in this stupefying, glossy fashion until it gradually finds a pulse.
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The sound, particularly in the battle scenes, is awesome in its stupefying thunderousness.
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Their speeches can be stupefyingly boring, as if they are reciting parrot-fashion from books, and full of cliches.
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NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome"
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Using gas, smoke, poison or other stupefying substances in hunting game is also banned.
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Contains a poisonous active principle, picrotoxin; used to adulterate beer, and by poachers to stupefy fish.
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But during the summer, with nothing to do and hardly no one to see, I turned to the mindless entertainment box often and happily, letting it stupefy me for more than hours at a time.
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The floating condo complex for the silver-haired jet set rents out apartments ranging in price from a stupefying $2,100 to $7,200 (U.S.) per day.
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The challenge is how to properly honor King, without stupefying readers whose eyes glaze at the thought of hearing yet another recitation of the famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.
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So they never actually see just how stupefyingly dull this sport can be for the folks back home.
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They should not get fooled by the "make believe" kind of stupefying, deceptive advertisements.
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Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
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Revives someone, especially someone who has had Stupefy cast on them.
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His low cross bobbled into the box, seeming to stupefy the centre of the St Johnstone defence, and skipped through to McGarry, hovering around the penalty spot.
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The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
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He later followed that up with a failed polygraph, a press conference that The Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls called "stupefying," and a thinly veiled implication that Obama was somehow involved in the murder of the choir director at Obama's former church.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Dreams of My Fellatio
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the stupefying impact of the tragedy
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But the two reports together seem so far beyond the pale of the possible that they serve to stupefy the father: "his heart grew numb," (pugh, "to grow cold").
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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My research tells me that "plonking" may be defined as the art of making the utterly obvious stupefyingly clear!
Recession, Inflation and Energy
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The controls are stupefyingly simple; swipe up to jump, left or right or turn, down to slide under stuff.
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It felt good to rise to motion after the long hours inside Niigata's stupefying catafalque.
FLOATING CITY
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I felt rather sorry for him, having to find out stuff like this, and after going through my own share of shocks, I knew just how mind-wracking and stupefying this could be.
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Caught up, willy-nilly, in lawlessness of a sort were also numberless worthy members of the public, who faced a stupefying barrage of emergency laws passed on sumptuary, economic and security grounds.
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Amuse" sounds like anthropomorphizing, of course--it's an interesting word, comes from the French amuser, "to stupefy"--we're most amused when our brains are buggy.
Lightning bug
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the stupefying effects of hemp
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the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying
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The Tribunal had found it "stupefying" that security had depended on Haradinaj, a war criminal. for the Tribunal's witnesses, there was great concern, and the friendship between
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By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'.
Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
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As I have been writing for years with stupefying redundancy - and obvious lack of success - this idea is a hoax.
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence.
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The ordeal of the last two hours had been stupefying, but now he gathered his wits and followed the other vehicle gratefully as it led the way back down the narrow road to a fork, where it turned onto an upbound trail.
The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
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This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
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Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
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The great fresh open, after the stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things.
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Yale Press Log: NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome
NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome"
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He had to be careful the calm didn't stupefy him; make him forgetful of her.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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In his later work, Capital, Marx comments a number of times that nursing mothers coped with their early return to the production line by stupefying their hungry babies with opiates.
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The stupefying losses in mortgage-related securities came in large part because of flawed, history-based models used by salesmen, rating agencies and investors, " he wrote.
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I could have said how stupefying you are to proclaimed in your blog that you can't stand grammatically wrong English, but yet I read one of your sentence you wrote - "Hello folks I is in goa now".
One of the basic blogging etiquette is never copy
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Tobacco has a deadening and stupefying effect upon the nerves.
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence.
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Scott Cleland of Netcompetition. org called it "stupefying" that the FCC would reach the
Multichannel News: Cable Operators
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These are best described as a stupefying roar of bombast occasionally interrupted by a few words of real sublimity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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a stupefying blow to the head
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You know the kind of stupefying sesquipedalian obfuscation where the scribe appears to be in cahoots to get a commission every time you have to stop and look up a word.
Is Godot your middle name, Bill O��Reilly?
