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Adjective: stupefying
  1. So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
    "the figure inside the bouclé dress was stupefying"
    - astonishing, astounding, staggering
     
  2. Making physically stupid or dull or insensible
    "a stupefying blow to the head"; "the stupefying effects of hemp"
     
  3. Shocking with surprise and consternation
    "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
Verb: stupefy  's(y)toopu`fI
  1. Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
    - besot
     
  2. Be a mystery or bewildering to
    - 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
    - stun

See also: alarming, disorienting, impressive, stupefaction

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