stupefy

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Men so vary from one another, that numberless methods have to be invented to repress, stupefy, and extinguish individual thought.

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  1. transitive verb To dull the senses or faculties of. See Synonyms at daze.
  2. transitive verb To amaze; astonish.

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  • This hard working of women in agricultural pursuits tends to stupefy and brutalise the rural population and keeps them in a condition of subjection to the Prussian Church and the Prussian system, and in readiness for war. —  My Four Years in Germany
  • The life of a country gentleman did not dull or stupefy him, or lead him to gross indulgences. —  George Washington
  • Scent -- my mind caught at that: there were herbs the aroma of which could stupefy or drug a man, leaving him open to control by another's desire. —  Three Against The Witch World
  • Men so vary from one another, that numberless methods have to be invented to repress, stupefy, and extinguish individual thought. —  The Simple Life
  • According to Jewish custom, the sufferers were offered a strong aromatic wine, an intoxicating drink, which, through a sentiment of pity, was given to the condemned in order to stupefy him. [ —  The Life of Jesus
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English stupefien, from Old French stupefier, from Latin stupefacere : stupēre, to be stunned + facere, to make; see fact.

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  1. Formerly also stupify; = French stupéfier (from Latin as if *stupeficare), equivalent to Italian stupefare, from Latin stupefacere, make senseless, deaden, benumb, stupefy, from stupere, be struck senseless, + facere, make (see -fy).
 

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