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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stupor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
catatonic stupor/trance
in a drunken stupor (=nearly unconscious from being drunk)
▪ She was lying in a drunken stupor on the sidewalk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
drunken
▪ One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door.
▪ It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
▪ At last a lone figure staggered out, singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor.
▪ May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner, same as the rest of them.
▪ I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor.
▪ At last I fell back on to my stool and into the blackness of a drunken stupor.
▪ The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden.
▪ They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drink yourself silly/into a stupor/to death etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He drank himself into a stupor every night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Colonel Herbinger, drunk at the time, thought in his stupor that the enemy had launched a massive attack.
▪ But sometimes the arousal achieves only a level of stupor, even when a pinch is used.
▪ It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
▪ One youth told of emerging from a drunken stupor to find himself in bed with the boy next door.
▪ The recent massacre in Acteal has forced the government to shake off its stupor, at least for a while.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stupor

Stupor \Stu"por\, n. [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.]

  1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

  2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stupor

late 14c., from Latin stupor "insensibility, numbness, dullness," from stupere "be stunned" (see stupid).

Wiktionary
stupor

n. 1 A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility. 2 A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.

WordNet
stupor
  1. n. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock" [syn: daze, shock]

  2. marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion and by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor" [syn: grogginess, stupefaction, semiconsciousness]

Wikipedia
Stupor

Stupor (From Latin stupere, "be stunned or amazed") is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. Those in a stuporous state are rigid, mute and only appear to be conscious, as the eyes are open and follow surrounding objects. The word derives from the Latin stupor ("numbness, insensibility"). Being characterized by impairments to reactions to external stimuli, it usually appears in infectious diseases, complicated toxic states, severe hypothermia, mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, severe clinical depression), epilepsy, vascular illnesses (e.g. hypertensive encephalopathy), shock (e.g. learning of a death or surviving a car crash), neoplasms (e.g. brain tumors), vitamin D deficiency and other maladies.

Usage examples of "stupor".

The recalled demand splashed Bree like a bucket of icy water, jarring her from her stupor.

May it know how the mind in expansion revolts From a nursery Past with dead letters aloof, And the piping to stupor of Precedents shun, In a field where the forefather print of the hoof Is not yet overgrassed by the watering hours, And should prompt us to Change, as to promise of sun, Till brain-rule splendidly towers.

They were renowned not only for their brutal killings, but also for celebrating their slayings by plunging themselves into drug-induced stupors.

Beynor discovered very quickly that Scarth Saltbeck lay in a drunken stupor so profound that his mind was inaccessible to any invader.

ZaZa the Victress rose through the mists of sleep and stupor, lifting towards the light, old memories and desires and hatreds stirring, coalescing as She neared consciousness.

The cats roused themselves from their catnip stupor and raced for the bedroom.

Zenobia looked on in a kind of stupor, and when she saw me begin to slash the dresses she turned pale and made an involuntary motion to stay my hand, for not knowing my intentions she thought I must be beside myself.

In a stupor of grief and dread have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed by our hands ?

Conan rushed up the marble stair, the man above shook himself from his stupor and drew a sword that sparkled frostily in the radium light.

He wanted to see Lord Melton before the man had time to drink himself into a stupor.

The assumption is that, like so many other Out Island ships, the dragons overflew it, throwing the crew into a vacant-eyed stupor, and then destroyed it with the great wind and waves that their wings could stir.

As the mood deteriorated, bottles of liquor appeared on the conference table and the putschists began the serious business of drinking themselves into a stupor.

He smokes a lot, orders cheap bourbon from the commissary, and drinks himself into an amnesiac stupor each night.

And tonight she had seen Sparks Dawntreader, openly flaunting his sanctuary there at the banquet, drinking himself into a stupor.

Other spirits, again, are in a sleepy stupor, wishing to be left alone, and severe language is at times required to arouse them, as will be observed in the records following.