Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stupefied"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stupefied \Stu"pe*fied\, a.
Having been made stupid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stupefy \Stu"pe*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stupefied}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stupefying}.] [F. stup['e]fier, fr. L. stupere to be
stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See
{Stupid}, {Fact}, and cf. {Stupefacient}.] [Written also
{stupify}, especially in England.]
1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of
perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility;
to make torpid.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stupefied
adj 1: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle
of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of
having seem the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen
were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of
his promotion" [syn: {dumbfounded}, {dumfounded}, {flabbergasted},
{thunderstruck}]
2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was
stupid from fatigue" [syn: {dazed}, {stunned}, {stupid(p)}]
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