Meaning

1 senses

  1. To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

Examples

11 sentences

  1. Sami was in a drunken stupor.

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  2. Ziri drank himself into a stupor.

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  3. The discussion put her into a stupor.

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  4. The patient is in a state of profound stupor.

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  5. Tom seemed to be in a sort of stupor.

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Origin

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Dis

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.

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Forms

stupors, stuporing, stupored, stupored
Base formstupor · to stupor
3rd person singularstupors
Present participlestuporing
Past simplestupored
Past participlestupored

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystupor
he, she, itstupors

Past simpleLesson

all personsstupored

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stupored
he, she, ithas stupored

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stupor

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stupidB1stupiditystupidlysturdysturgeonstutter

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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