Stū'pe-fy, v. t.
v. t. [Written also stupify, especially in England, but with obvious impropriety.] [imp. & p. p. STUPEFIED; p. pr. & vb. n. STUPEFYING.] [Fr. stupéfier, Pr. stupefar, It. stupefare, Lat. stupefacere, from stupere, to be struck senseless, and facere, to make.]
Sense 1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility.
The fumes of passion intoxicate his discerning faculties, as the fumes of drink stupefy the brain. South.
Sense 2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
It is not malleable; but yet it is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.