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To make someone unable to think clearly. There are two ways this happens, and English uses one verb for both. The first is shock: something so surprising that it your head — 'the news stupefied us'. The second is dulling: drink, drugs, heat, exhaustion, or endless that fogs the mind — 'the medicine stupefied him', 'hours of the same task stupefy you'. Both come straight from the root idea of striking someone senseless. It is a formal, literary verb; in speech people say 'shocked me', 'blew my mind', or 'knocked me out'. You will meet the -ing and -ed forms far more often than the plain verb: stupefying , a stupefied crowd. That is worth noticing, because knowing the verb is what makes the two make sense. The thing that does it is stupefying; the person it happens to is stupefied.
使目瞪口呆、使神智麻木
組成From Latin stupefaciō — stupeō 'to be stunned, speechless' plus faciō 'to do, to make', so literally 'to make someone stunned'. It came into English through Middle French stupéfier.
同家族的字
- stupidsame Latin stupeō, originally 'stunned, senseless'
- stuporsame Latin stupeō — a dazed, unthinking state
- stupefactionthe noun from the same Latin stupefaciō
- satisfyshares the Latin faciō, 'to make' — the same -fy ending
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stupefyverb/ˈst(j)upəˌfaɪ/
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lawTo dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.
- a stupefying drug; a stupefacient
- He stupefied her by means of chloroform, a general anaesthetic.
- 2
To astonish or stun, especially as a result of some distressing action.
- The police's negligence and callousness continued to stupefy her.
- What if I love you!—This misery / Of your dissatisfaction and misprision / Stupefies me.
- 3
obsoleteTo deprive a material of the ability to undergo change or movement, especially deformation.
- The next is, when it is not malleable, but yet it is not fluent, but stupified^([sic]).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。