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• v  make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
• v  be a mystery or bewildering to
• v  make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
• s  as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
• s  in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
  lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow

• And many a literate scientist admits to being all but stupefied by their jargon-filled contents.
• Millions of working Americans sat in front of the single most common-denominator mass media event on TV, gazing stupefied at pricey, inscrutable ads for pricey, inscrutable .
• In 1939 he stupefied the entire world by reaching a nonaggression pa ct with Stalin.

• besot
• stupefy
• perplex
• vex
• stick
• get
• puzzle
• mystify
• baffle
• beat
• pose
• bewilder
• flummox
• nonplus
• gravel
• amaze
• dumbfound
• stun
• dumbfounded
• dumfounded
• flabbergasted
• thunderstruck
• dumbstruck
• dumbstricken
• dazed
• stunned
• stupid

News & Articles

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• TOM HOFFARTH on the MEDIA: What gives when ESPN starts cutting itself down to size?
  Howie Schwab didn't seem stumped. Just stupefied. If he's become the latest trivial piece in ESPN's multi-media game plan moving forward, imagine how the rest of those working for the Disney-owned company must wonder about what Tomorrowland will look like for the sports media industry.
  June 14, 2013 - Long Beach Press-Telegram

Quotes

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• Guy Maddin in The Gazette (Montreal)
  Everything beneath thin layers of time asphalt and snow. Are these arteries still here? Are they dug out every night and reburied at dawn? We Winnipeggers are so stupefied with nostalgia, we're actually never quite sure,says Maddin.
• AB Yehoshua in Los Angeles Times
  Two days later, Levy responded to Yehoshua, saying the novelist had "fallen prey to the wretched wave that has inundated, stupefied, blinded and brainwashed us. You're actually justifying the most brutal war Israel has ever fought. . . . Outcomes,...