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- verb Present participle of
stupefy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
- adjective shocking with surprise and consternation
- adjective making physically stupid or dull or insensible
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Examples
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These are best described as a stupefying roar of bombast occasionally interrupted by a few words of real sublimity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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He later followed that up with a failed polygraph, a press conference that The Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls called "stupefying," and a thinly veiled implication that Obama was somehow involved in the murder of the choir director at Obama's former church.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Dreams of My Fellatio 2008
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Sitting in a cubicle is "stupefying" and isolating, only intensifying a social need.
Another Meeting? 2008
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome":
NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome" 2007
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Yale Press Log: NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome"
NYT: Tapestry in the Baroque is "stupefying" and "awesome" 2007
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You know the kind of stupefying sesquipedalian obfuscation where the scribe appears to be in cahoots to get a commission every time you have to stop and look up a word.
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Scott Cleland of Netcompetition. org called it "stupefying" that the FCC would reach the
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Scott Cleland of Netcompetition. org called it "stupefying" that the FCC would reach the
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The Tribunal had found it "stupefying" that security had depended on Haradinaj, a war criminal. for the Tribunal's witnesses, there was great concern, and the friendship between
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They should not get fooled by the "make believe" kind of stupefying, deceptive advertisements.
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