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• The girls round the table chewed moonishly, wrapped in their morning stupor.From the entry moonishly
• I didn't realize that in my drunken stupor I had fallen asleep amidst a fairy ring.2012, Juliana Regina Delion, Heart Attack!: Shadows on the Eve of Tomorrow, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry fairy ring
• The initiate falls to the ground in a stupor after drinking the iboga brew.2009, Marlene Dobkin de Rios, The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios, page 85. From the entry Bwiti
• Obnubilations, comas and stupors, each with its clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics.1960 Jun. 27th–29th, Henri Fischgold and Betty A. Schwartz, “A clinical, electroencephalographic and polygraphic study of sleep in the…. From the entry obnubilation
• His first thought thereafter was that Robert was drunk and in a loggish stupor.1938, Frank Swinnerton, Harvest comedy: a dramatic chronicle, page 269. From the entry loggish
• Baily fought through the drug-induced stupor, but the nausea grew.2016, Steve Bradshaw, Evil Like Me. From the entry metopryl
• We spend too many of these precious clinic hours in blind stupor, tenebrizing it like polar bears in winter.2011, Rose Macaulay, Personal Pleasures. From the entry tenebrize
• They fed on oily carcasses washed down with rum, brawled away the evenings, and collapsed each night in drunken stupor.1961, Boys' Life, volume 51, number 11, page 13. From the entry doggery
• He babysits the orchids that you bought and bloomed and are now watching decline in a stupor of regret, shame and despair.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry moth orchid
• Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . .2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31. From the entry drunken
• Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.1975, George Martin Yuill, The Treatment of Renal Failure, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry obtundity
• Levi's brows creased together in dumb stupor as Reiko stepped over the still-prone figure to ziptie the guy's hands behind his back, before removing the Taser probes.2018, Tellulah Darling, Kissed Off, →ISBN. From the entry ziptie
• Over three decades of writing about transit in the Toronto region has landed me in a stupor, unable to give readers the straight goods on our transit needs.2015 January 12, Royson James, “Let’s clear our heads and rethink this transit mess”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 01 May 2016. From the entry straight goods
• Late that night I lay in a kind of stupor, listening absently while the new mother in the next bed sales-pitched the Tupperware she sold for a living.1991, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, The Crown of Columbus, page 91. From the entry sales-pitch

Meaning of stupor

1. noun A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.
2. noun A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
3. verb To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

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How do you use stupor in a sentence?

Stupor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He fell into a drunken stupor.”

What is a short sentence with stupor?

“He fell into a drunken stupor.”

What does stupor mean?

Stupor means a state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.