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stupor


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stupor  \Stu"por\,  n.  [L.,  from  stupere  to  be  struck  senseless.] 
  1.  Great  diminution  or  suspension  of  sensibility;  suppression 
  of  sense  or  feeling;  lethargy. 
 
  2.  Intellectual  insensibility;  moral  stupidity;  heedlessness 
  or  inattention  to  one's  interests. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stupor 
  n  1:  a  sudden  state  of  violent  emotional  disturbance;  "the  shock 
  of  his  mother's  death"  [syn:  {daze},  {shock}] 
  2:  marginal  consciousness;  "his  grogginess  was  caused  as  much 
  by  exhaustion  and  by  the  blows";  "someone  stole  his  wallet 
  while  he  was  in  a  drunken  stupor"  [syn:  {grogginess},  {stupefaction}, 
  {semiconsciousness}] 




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