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Definition of Stupefies
1. stupefy [v] - See also: stupefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stupefies
Literary usage of Stupefies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"So then, this wonderful plant prevents the access of for other purposes in India.
snakes, stupefies them, and kills them if they do come, and cures them if ..."
2. Biblical Scholarship and Inspiration: Two Papers by Llewelyn John Evans, Henry Preserved Smith (1891)
"Jael (the Church) meets him, stupefies him with milk (prayer), and slays him with
the nail (of the Cross). Samson even is made a type of Christ. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"That which stupefies; specifically, a medicine that produces stupor; ... One who
or that which stupefies, or makes insensible or stupid. ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1881)
"(Benumbs, stupefies, makes sleepy, because larger draughts of wine than suitable
or proper stupefy ... T * " It stupefies, enervates, oppresses, destroys. ..."
5. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1897)
"... Copepoda, and Isopods in 1 hour (LOEW) ; stupefies Vorticella in from 2 to 10
minutes. ... 0.25% stupefies Stentor in 10 to 20 minutes. (HOFER. ..."
6. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1896)
"... stupefies Vorticella in from 2 to 10 minutes. ... 0.25% stupefies Stentor in
10 to 20 minutes. ..."
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