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/stjˈuːpɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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shocking with surprise and consternation
the stupefying impact of the tragedy -
so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
suffered a staggering defeat
an astounding achievement
the amount of money required was staggering
such an enormous response was astonishing
the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying -
making physically stupid or dull or insensible
a stupefying blow to the head
the stupefying effects of hemp
How To Use stupefying In A Sentence
- The sound, particularly in the battle scenes, is awesome in its stupefying thunderousness.
- 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
- a stupefying blow to the head
- 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?
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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.
- Sitting in a cubicle is "stupefying" and isolating, only intensifying a social need. Another Meeting?
- 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.
- It is a testament to the quality of the actors that they were able to wring rudimentary sympathy out of this stupefying script.
- The film unfolds in this stupefying, glossy fashion until it gradually finds a pulse.
