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单词 stupefy
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stupefy
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Don't be embarrassed if the magician's tricks stupefy you. It means you're amazed. Who doesn't want to be stopped in his tracks sometimes?
Stupefy looks a lot like stupid. But intelligence has nothing to do with being stupefied, which comes from Latin and means "to make stunned." Anyone can be stupefied by something scary, mysterious, or just plain remarkable. Think of tourists visiting New York City for the first time. They stare up at the skyscrapers, lost in wonder. Taking that moment to let themselves be amazed? Nothing stupid about it, unless they step on someone's foot, of course.
WORD FAMILY
stupefy: stupefaction, stupefied, stupefies, stupefying+/stupefaction: stupefactions/stupefied: stupefiedly/stupefying: stupefyingly
USAGE EXAMPLES
Knowledge really is power, and in this case, it provokes the whole gamut of human reactions, from liberation to despair to stupefied disbelief.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016)
So dramatic was their resurrection that stupefied doctors began calling it the Lazarus effect.
The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016)
Stupefied, I began asking them questions to understand their thinking.
Salon(Nov 27, 2016)
1v make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
Syn|Hyper
besot
desensitise, desensitize
cause not to be sensitive
2v make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
Syn|Hyper
stun
immobilise, immobilize
cause to be unable to move
3v be a mystery or bewildering to
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex
mix up, stump
cause to be perplexed or confounded
riddle
set a difficult problem or riddle
elude, escape
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
defy, refuse, resist
elude, especially in a baffling way
bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
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