stupefy
verb (used with object)
to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
stupefyingly
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a word derived from
stupefy.
Example Sentences
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Rather stupefyingly, The Times printed the addresses of these newly defensible dwellings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
I missed my younger daughter: a sweet, complicated, anxious and stupefyingly talkative child, who had been marooned with a Chromebook at our kitchen table with an agonizing backlog of things to worry about and say.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
It was unique, and it was part of a stupefyingly consistent whole.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017
Yet in less than three years, he would learn to warp the Americana he collected into stupefyingly original work.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2017
It was a bit like sleeping in the engine room of Ladderal Mill—noisy beyond belief but stupefyingly rhythmic.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
