Stu·pe·fied a. Having been made stupid.

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 Stu·pe·fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stupefied p. pr. & vb. n. Stupefying ]  [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.
    The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.   --South.
 2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
    It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied.   --Bacon.

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 stupefy
      v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or
           infatuation [syn: besot]
      2: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
         don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
         question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick,
          get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder,
          flummox, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
      3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
         [syn: stun]
      [also: stupefied]


 stupefied
      adj 1: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle
             of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of
             having seen 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)]


 stupefied
      See stupefy