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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stupify .
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Examples
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Page vii, "stupifies" changed to "stupefies (first stupefies the)
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Looking at the whole thing, it just sort of stupifies me.
"Every little piece of your life..." sovay 2008
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After a full day there, I was confirmed in my belief that late capitalist culture stupifies in ways that cut us off from 90% of the deeper experiences that are unique to humanity, and leaves us trapped in the psychic Potemkin village of a hellishly vapid consumerism.
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No smoke of the smudges really keeps them off, though it stupifies and bothers them a good deal.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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The poor simpleton, who is weeping out his woes to honest lawyer Kettleby, it makes mawkish; the beau it makes sick; and the politician it stupifies.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Could he spend his hard-earned money in that which stupifies his mind, injures his body, degrades his character, shortens his life, and destroys his soul; and besides all this, brings want and wretchedness on his family, and makes himself a scandal and reproach to humanity -- could any man yield himself to the power of intoxicating liquor that considered what is involved in such a course?
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He speaks best on the present apprehension, for meditation stupifies him, and the more he is in travel, the less he brings forth.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Martin Fowkes negociated pannel plaistering pourtrayed sculls stupifies tenour vender
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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The witch narcotised her pupils in order to produce in them delusive visions; the surgeon stupifies his patient to prevent the pain of an operation being felt.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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` ` It stupifies, '' she said, looking upwards as she finished her drought,
Ivanhoe 1892
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