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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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  1. v. t. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
  2. v. t. To deprive of material mobility.
  3. v. make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
  4. v. be a mystery or bewildering to
  5. v. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
  6. 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.
  7. v:100 v make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation v be a mystery or bewildering to v make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow