stupefy

They stupefy in equal measure, the Shchukin and Morozov collections, yet the two Vuitton Foundation shows have radically different tones in their final acts.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

Knausgaard: accretion of detail so exhaustive as to mesmerise, or stupefy, the reader in the service of recapturing the vast psychic shifts of childhood becoming manhood.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2018

He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2012

So sequences like the old-school highlight in the fourth quarter Monday night stupefy the populace and become popular Vine clips.

From Washington Post

It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The increasingly bread-head and circus-like aspects of EDM have provoked a backlash from those who feel dance culture is swapping underground intimacy in favour of soul-less bombast that stuns and stupefies audiences into slack-jawed submission.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012

With an inimitable style that 1988 Olympic champion Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland has called "art on skis," Miller frequently stupefies his rivals as he wins races while choosing improbable routes down a mountain.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 18, 2011

In conclusion: sport may not inevitably coarsen, but in the particular form of society we have it undoubtedly stupefies.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

Pianist Garner still has more than his fair share of fingers, but their presence often stupefies rather than charms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rome so beautiful, so great! her presence stupefies, and one has to withdraw to prize the treasures she has given.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

When the 55-year-old New Jersey chiropractor looks at his current balance, he is stupefied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

One month after One Day arrived on Netflix, Nicholls still seems somewhat stupefied by the reaction.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024

Levin was about to ask which one of the workers discovered the arm, but the slow revelation of the landfill’s awfulness stupefied him as the gate groaned apart.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

Last August, when minor league baseball was still a thing, Victor González sat at his locker in the Oklahoma City Dodgers clubhouse a bit stupefied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

The sun strikes low, I am stupefied with exhaustion and hunger.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Another block and a half lands you at Barriles, decorated in Colombian flags and giant inflatable soccer balls while salsa blares at stupefying volume from the speakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

This orchestra and its chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, offer a master class in stupefying technique and passion.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

The stupefying truth revealed itself, and a polite call to his cheery stepmother confirmed that his dad was alive and well — “working in the chicken coop.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Australian singer Nick Cave has said he is attending the Coronation for "the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring".

From BBC ● May 6, 2023

Chastened by criticism of the stupefying length of October’s Dedication Day ceremony, the fair’s officers had kept the Opening Day program short and pledged to honor the timetable at all costs.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson