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Verb: stupefy  'st(y)oo-pi`fI
  1. Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
    - besot
     
  2. Be a mystery or bewildering to
    "a stupefying problem"
    - perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
     
  3. Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
    "stupefy fish"
    - stun

Derived forms: stupefies, stupefying, stupefied

See also: stupefaction

Type of: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, desensitise [Brit], desensitize, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, immobilise [Brit], immobilize, throw