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stupify

Stupefy \Stu"pe*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stupefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stupefying.] [F. stup['e]fier, fr. L. stupere to be stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See Stupid, Fact, and cf. Stupefacient.] [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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stupify

vb. (alternative form of stupefy English)

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Stupify

"Stupify" is a song by the heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on April 12, 2000 as a single from their debut album, The Sickness. It peaked at number-twelve on the United States Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number-ten on the United States Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was also used in an English adaptation of the Dragon Ball Z movie Lord Slug, and remixed for the movie Little Nicky as "Stupify (Fu's Forbidden Little Nicky Remix)". Unlike a lot of other Disturbed songs, "Stupify" features synthesizers.

Usage examples of "stupify".

Traveling the deserts of Basa II in search of what little there was to find, coming occasionally to the city to satisfy themselves with women of the houses, to stupify themselves with the ale and wines of the inns.

No smoke of the smudges really keeps them off, though it stupifies and bothers them a good deal.