stupefying
Meaning of stupefying
adjective
- making one unable to think or feel properly.
the game ends with a sense of stupefying boredom
- make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.
the offence of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her
late Middle English: from French stupéfier, from Latin stupefacere, from stupere ‘be struck senseless’.
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Hyphenation of stupefying
stu-pe-fy-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- stupefying is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
stupefying synonyms
Meaning astonishing:
astonishing, astounding, staggering
Meaning knock unconscious or into a dazed or semi-conscious state:
Meaning (especially of an emotional or physical shock) make (someone) unable to think or react properly:
Meaning make (someone) unable to think clearly:
Meaning deprive of physical or emotional feeling:
Meaning cause (a sensation) to be felt less intensely; deaden:
Meaning administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility:
Meaning calm, dignified, and unhurried:
Meaning administer an anaesthetic to (a person or animal), especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness:
Meaning administer a tranquillizer to (a person or animal):
Meaning affect with or as if with a narcotic drug:
Meaning (of alcoholic drink or a drug) cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behaviour:
Meaning make (someone) drunk; intoxicate:
Meaning administer drugs to (a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete) in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance:
Words that rhyme with stupefying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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