Stupor
noun
A state of near-unconsciousness or drowsiness.
He was in a stupor after taking the medicine.
Often appears as...
- drunk in stupor
- in a stupor
noun
A state of mental numbness or apathy, especially due to shock or trauma.
After the accident, he was in a dazed stupor for several days.
Often appears as...
- stupor of grief
- fall into stupor
noun
A state of near-unconsciousness or drowsiness.
He was in a stupor after taking the medicine.
Often appears as...
- drunk in stupor
- in a stupor
noun
A state of mental numbness or apathy, especially due to shock or trauma.
After the accident, he was in a dazed stupor for several days.
Often appears as...
- stupor of grief
- fall into stupor
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Causes
Stupor often results from physical conditions like illness or intoxication.
His feverish illness left him in a stupor, unresponsive to our questions.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
'Stupor' usually describes a temporary condition, not a permanent one.
She snapped out of her medication-induced stupor by the next morning.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sleep
Stupor is not sleeping; it's a groggy state where someone is barely awake.
Even in a stupor, he could hear voices around him.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Causes
Stupor often results from physical conditions like illness or intoxication.
His feverish illness left him in a stupor, unresponsive to our questions.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
'Stupor' usually describes a temporary condition, not a permanent one.
She snapped out of her medication-induced stupor by the next morning.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sleep
Stupor is not sleeping; it's a groggy state where someone is barely awake.
Even in a stupor, he could hear voices around him.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Causes
Stupor often results from physical conditions like illness or intoxication.
His feverish illness left him in a stupor, unresponsive to our questions.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
'Stupor' usually describes a temporary condition, not a permanent one.
She snapped out of her medication-induced stupor by the next morning.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sleep
Stupor is not sleeping; it's a groggy state where someone is barely awake.
Even in a stupor, he could hear voices around him.
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
he will never go back to surgery, he will never be the loving father that he was to his two children, his life will be changed. If he has the usual result, he'll end up like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' And you know about that, just essentially in a stupor the rest of his life."
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Cop Killer PIPE National...
God man just one little phrase twist your whole life around in a different direction Steve's already gone he's shot wheeled and ran before I could come out of my stupor all this happened within the span of like two or three seconds I don't
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Music and creativity in...
into a benign, unthinking stupor. According to Plato, only very specific types of music were beneficial to a person's ethos. One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage,
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
he will never go back to surgery, he will never be the loving father that he was to his two children, his life will be changed. If he has the usual result, he'll end up like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' And you know about that, just essentially in a stupor the rest of his life."
Video examples
Cop Killer PIPE National...
God man just one little phrase twist your whole life around in a different direction Steve's already gone he's shot wheeled and ran before I could come out of my stupor all this happened within the span of like two or three seconds I don't
Video examples
Music and creativity in...
into a benign, unthinking stupor. According to Plato, only very specific types of music were beneficial to a person's ethos. One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage,
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Quote examples
Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
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Hanna Rosin
Israeli Author
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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Padmapriya Janakiraman
Indian Actress
I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.
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David Olusoga
British Historian
It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Peter Landesman
American Director
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
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John Clare
English Poet
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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Hugh Grant
English Actor
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
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John Piper
American Clergyman
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
Quote examples
Hanna Rosin
Israeli Author
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
Quote examples
Padmapriya Janakiraman
Indian Actress
I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.
Quote examples
David Olusoga
British Historian
It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.
Quote examples
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Peter Landesman
American Director
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
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John Clare
English Poet
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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Hugh Grant
English Actor
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
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John Piper
American Clergyman
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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