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Definition of Stupefying
1. Adjective. So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm. "The figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
2. Adjective. Making physically stupid or dull or insensible. "The stupefying effects of hemp"
3. Adjective. Shocking with surprise and consternation. "The stupefying impact of the tragedy"
Definition of Stupefying
1. Verb. (present participle of stupefy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stupefying
1. stupefy [v] - See also: stupefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stupefying
Literary usage of Stupefying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"He also believes that animal charcoal neutralizes the stupefying action of the
vegetable alkaloids ..."
2. The Temperance Movement: Or, The Conflict Between Man and Alcohol by Henry William Blair (1888)
"... Intoxication"—The use of Poisons for Medical Purposes—The use of Beer—Its
stupefying Effects on its Devotees—The Cruel Results which have followed the ..."
3. Sociology Based Upon Ethnography by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau, Henry Merivale Trollope (1893)
"CHAPTER V. stupefying OR EXCITING SUBSTANCES. So addicted as nearly every human
race appears to be drunkenness ..."
4. The Penal Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1874)
"... or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both. tering another any
chloroform, ether, laudanum, or other nar- stupefying 222. ..."
5. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Burning pains in supraorbital region, < right side; occipital neuralgia of a
stupefying, rending character, with more or less cutaneous sensibility, ..."
6. Annotations on the Gospel According to St. Matthew by Charles Frederick Schaeffer (1895)
"... willing to be bereft of consciousness and the sense of pain in His last moments
by the stupefying mixture; He afterwards received the unmixed wine (ver. ..."
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