stupefy

Other forms of stupefy

past tense or participle

stupefied

present participle

stupefying·

third person

stupefies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stupefy

What does stupefy mean?

stupefy means "make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stupefy?

stupefy has 3 syllables: stu-pe-fy. The stress falls on "stu".

What is another word for stupefy?

Close synonyms include besot, perplex, vex, stick, get. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stupefy a common word?

stupefy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.