verb
- Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.
- Be a mystery or bewildering to.
- usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
- usage: "stun fish"
adjective
- So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm.
- usage: "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
- synonyms: astonishing, astounding, staggering
- Making physically stupid or dull or insensible.
- usage: "a stupefying blow to the head"; "the stupefying effects of hemp"
- Shocking with surprise and consternation.
- usage: "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
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