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stupefy

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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.

To deprive of material mobility.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction. Leo Tolstoy

This beats me! Source: Internet

Got me--I don't know the answer! Source: Internet

a vexing problem Source: Internet

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