stupefying

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STUPEFYING, participle present tense Rendering extremely dull or insensible; as the stupefying virtues of opium. [It would be convenient to write stupifaction, stupifactive, and place these words after stupidly.]
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