Definition of stupefies Stupefies

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What does stupefies mean?

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Verb
stupefy - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
		perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
		bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, confuse, throw make stupid with alcohol
		puzzle over try to solve
		figure out, puzzle out, solve, lick, work out, work find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"
		mix up, stump remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
		riddle set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
		elude, escape escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
stupefy - make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
		stun
		immobilise, immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic"
stupefy - make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
		besot
		desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"

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stupefy (Verb)
To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.

stupefy (v. t.)
To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
stupefy (v. t.)
To deprive of material mobility.

stupefy
stū′pe-fī, v.t. to make stupid or senseless: to deaden the perception: to deprive of sensibility:—pa.t. and pa.p. stū′pefied.—adj. Stūpefā′cient, stupefying.—n. anything that stupefies, a narcotic drug.—n. Stūpefac′tion, the act of making stupid or senseless: insensibility: stupidity.—adj. Stūpefac′tive, causing stupefaction or insensibility.—ns. Stū′pefīedness; Stū′pefīer.—adj. Stū′pent, struck with stupor. [L. stupēre, to be struck senseless, facĕre, to make.]