Stupefy

Definition: Stupefy

Stupefy

Verb

1. Make dull or stupid; to muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.

2. Be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!".

3. Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stupefy" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Note: Stupefy \Stu"pe*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Stupefied; present participle verb or noun Stupefying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stupefy

Insensibility

Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify.

Physical Insensibility

Render insensible. Adjective: anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform. Noun: stupefy, stun.

Wonder

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Crosswords: Stupefy

Books

• Why do men stupefy themselves? : and other writings (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

trullos (befuddle, bewilder, daze, freak, intoxicate, overwhelm, stultify, stun), topit (blunt, disconcert, dull), topis (blunt, disconcert), mpij (benumb, blunt, cramp, drowse, dull, numb). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاجأ (catch, overtake, stagger, startle, stun, take), ‏صعق (astound, dumbfound, flabbergast, stun, thunderstrike, wither), ‏ذهل (amaze, astonish, astound, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, distract, flabbergast, flummox, maze, shake, shock, stagger, stun, surprise, take a fancy to, taken aback, wonder), ‏خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupor, torpid, torpor), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, tangle, unbalance), ‏شده (amaze, astonish, befog, bemuse, dumbfound, flabbergast, maze, wither). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вцепенявам (benumb, numb), затъпявам (dull, rust, turn), замайвам (daze, mystify, rock, spin), притъпявам (dull, sear), изумявам (amaze, overwhelm, petrify). (various references)

Chinese 

胡涂 (stupefied, stupefying). (various references)

Czech

zmást (baffle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, maze, mix up, nonplus, non-plus, obfuscate, perplex, puzzle, stick up, stump), otupit (blunt, deaden), ohromit (amaze, astound, bewilder, confound, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, strike dumb, stun, transfix). (various references)

Dutch

bedwelmen (drug, intoxicate, stun). (various references)

Esperanto

svenigi (drug, intoxicate, stun). (various references)

Farsi 

متحیرکردن یاشدن , کودن کردن , گیج کردن (Astonish, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Confound, Confuse, Daze, Distract, Fox, Fuzz, Knockdown, Muddle, Perplex, Petrify, Stump, Stun), تخدیرکردن (Dope, Drug), خرف کردن (Deaden, Stultify), بیهوش کردن , بهت زده کردن (Perplex). (various references)

Finnish

tyrmistyttää (dumbfound), huumata (dope, intoxicate, stun). (various references)

French

stupéfier (stagger, stun), méduser (stun), abrutir (stultify), abasourdir (stun). (various references)

German

verblüffen (amaze, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bewilder, confound, dazzle, dumfound, flabbergasted, flummox, Fox, nonplus, perplex, stump, stun, to amaze, to baffle, to dumbfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to puzzle, to stump, to stupefy), benommen machen (daze, stun). (various references)

Greek 

αποβλακώνω (go soft, make stupid, stultify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמם (alarm, shock), לשעמם (be tedious, be tiresome, bore, make dull), ל�"�"�"ים (amaze, appal, appall, astonish, astound, bewilder, bowl over, dumbfound, flabbergast, perplex, shock, stagger, stun), לטמטם (fuddle, muddle). (various references)

Hungarian

elképeszt (flabbergast, petrify, to abash, to bewilder, to bowl over, to flummox, to flurry, to nonplus, to sensationalize, to stupefy), elkábít (fluster, fuddle, narcotize, nobble, stun, to befuddle, to bemuse, to deaden, to drug, to narcotize, to numb, to obfuscate, to stupefy), elbódít (to bemuse, to drug, to numb, to obfuscate, to stun, to stupefy). (various references)

Italian

stupefare (astonish, astound, dumbfound, stun), stordire (daze, deafen, dull one's senses, dumbfound, stun), istupidire (befuddle, daze, make stupid, numb), intorpidire (benumb, dull, grow numb, numb), instupidire (besot). (various references)

Korean 

낙백하십시�". (various references)

Manx

jannoo thollaneagh (stun). (various references)

Pig Latin

upefystay

Portuguese

privar de sensibilidade, pasmar (amaze, flabbergast, gaze, mope), estupidificar (fuddle), estupefazer (bedazzle, breath away, obfuscate), entorpecer (benumb, drug, dull, paralyse, stiffen, tingle), atordoar (amaze, appal, daze, deafen, din, dismay, dizzy, hag, lay out, mope, puzzle, stagger, stun), assombrar (amaze, astonish, astound, bemuse, daze, haunt, petrify, surprise). (various references)

Romanian

uimi (amaze, astonish, bedazzle, dazzle, flabbergast, flummox, stagger, surprise), tâmpi (addle, besot, blunt, dull, flabbergast, flummox, hebetate), prosti (bamboozle, besot, chaff, chouse, dull, dupe, fool, make a fool of, stultify), imbeciliza (brutify, stultify), buimãci (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, distract, dumbfound, flabbergast, flummox, horrify, stun, surprise), amorţi (benumb, dull, numb, sleep, stiffen), ameţi (amaze, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, bewilder, dizzy, fluster, fuddle, get dizzy, intoxicate, stagger, stun), abrutiza (brutalize, brutify, imbrute), înţepeni (fasten, fix, jam, set, shackle, stiffen, wedge). (various references)

Russian 

дурманить (befuddle, intoxicate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapanjiti (astound, boggle, dumbfound, flabbergast, transfix), ošamutiti (besot, daze, obfuscate, stun). (various references)

Spanish

aturdir (abash, befuddle, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, distract, drug, fluster, fuddle, intoxicate, knock out, muddle, numb, stun). (various references)

Swedish

förbluffa (amaze, bepuzzle, flabbergast, take aback), bedöva (anaesthetize, daze, deaden, deafen, drug, make unconscious, stun). (various references)

Turkish

sersemletmek (bemuse, bewilder, daze, dizzy, dull, fuddle, hocus, make dizzy, make giddy, send smb. reeling, stun), uyuşturmak (anaesthetize, benumb, drug, dull, lull, narcotize, numb), bunaltmak (bore, drive smb. to the wall, give the willies, oppress, ply, ply with, push smb. to the wall, weigh down, whelm), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, surprise, take aback, wow), afallatmak (amaze, astonish, astound, confuse, daze, flabbergast, floor, flummox, stump, stun). (various references)

Ukrainian

притупляти розум, дивувати (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, buffalo, daze, enamor, enamour, flabbergast, surprise). (various references)

Welsh

syfrdanu (astound, daze, stun), hurtio (stun). (various references)

consopire, consopiti, consopitus, defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, soporatus, soporem, stupefacere, stupefacti, stupefactus, stupefecerunt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stupefy": stupefying, stupefyingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stupefy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stukely, stupefief, stupidfy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fetus, fusty, pesty, setup, stupe, suety, types, upset.

-3 letters: efts, espy, fets, feus, fuse, pest, pets, puts, pyes, sept, spue, step, stey, stye, suet, supe, tups, tyes, type, yups.

-4 letters: efs, eft, fet, feu, fey, pes, pet, pus, put, pye, set, spy, sty, sue, sup, tup, tye, ups, use, uts, yep, yes, yet.

+3 letters: spitefully, stupefying.

+4 letters: pussyfooted, pussyfooter, superfluity.

+5 letters: despitefully, pussyfooters, respectfully, stupefyingly, typefounders.