STUPEFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stupefied mean? 

• STUPEFIED (adjective)
  The adjective STUPEFIED has 2 senses:

1. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

2. in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock

  Familiarity information: STUPEFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUPEFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

Synonyms:

dumbfounded; dumbstricken; dumbstruck; dumfounded; flabbergasted; stupefied; thunderstruck

Context example:

was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion

Similar:

surprised (taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock

Synonyms:

dazed; stunned; stupefied; stupid

Context example:

was stupid from fatigue

Similar:

confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)

 Context examples 

I believe I should have been almost stupefied but for one circumstance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shook him, but he only murmured and turned: the smoke had stupefied him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was an altered creature, quieted, stupefied, indifferent to everything that passed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Good heaven! how very, very kind! Have you really—was it by your desire? I beg your pardon, but I am bewildered. Did Admiral Crawford apply? How was it? I am stupefied.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)