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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stupefy .
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Examples
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I so wanted to like her, and I may be warming to her as I reflect on her short stories, but the casual use of the N word stupefies me.
The Mis-Education of Maggie ____Maggie 2007
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I so wanted to like her, and I may be warming to her as I reflect on her short stories, but the casual use of the N word stupefies me.
Archive 2007-07-01 ____Maggie 2007
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A history major, he has a 3.91 grade-point average, which still stupefies some of his teammates.
A Quarterback's Quandary Scott Cacciola 2011
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It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Broke Glenn Beck 2010
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Just as the fiddler stupefies his audience with sound so would Wordsworth stupefy his in poetic numbers, blinding them to revolutionary imperatives.
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Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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I tell the Florentines, which, by the by, is true enough, — "The severity of an Italian winter compels me to seek a milder climate," — which well nigh stupefies them.
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Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Tocqueville’s vision and even the language anticipate Orwell’s 1984, or Huxley’s Brave New World Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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This undermines the importance of exposition, persuasion, and pleasure in learning; it "benumbs ... [the] imagination and stupefies ... [the] memory"
Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008
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