Antonyms for stupefy


Grammar : Verb
Spell : stoo-puh-fahy, styoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstu pəˌfaɪ, ˈstyu-


Definition of stupefy

Origin :
  • 1510s (implied in past participle stupefact), from Middle French stupéfier, from Latin stupefacere "make stupid or senseless," from stupere "be stunned" (see stupid) + facere "to make" (see factitious).
  • verb stun
  • verb amaze
  • verb astonish
Example sentences :
  • When he felt it whipping about in him, he drank alcohol to stupefy it and get some ease for himself.
  • Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
  • We had to stupefy them a little, since they had their swords, and I feared that they might resist.
  • Extract from : « The Red True Story Book » by Various
  • If the old man had meant to stupefy his questioner, he could not better have succeeded.
  • Extract from : « Laramie Holds the Range » by Frank H. Spearman
  • Consider the bringing to the Jove there news of such magnitude as to stupefy him!
  • Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith
  • I was obliged to etherize it a little, so as to stupefy it, and render it less uneasy.
  • Extract from : « The Insect » by Jules Michelet
  • There are low people who stupefy themselves with cheap brandy, but they are not common.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • Religion seems to have no other object, than to stupefy the mind.
  • Extract from : « Good Sense » by Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach
  • The fact seemed to stupefy him, and he stood with hanging hands and mouth.
  • Extract from : « The Happy End » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • They stupefy and narrow the mind by their empty, hollow, and constrained style.
  • Extract from : « Pedagogics as a System » by Karl Rosenkranz
  • You sleep till you stupefy yourself (thump), and then you go and dig.
  • Extract from : « Amaryllis at the Fair » by Richard Jefferies

Synonyms for stupefy

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