All 3 Uses of
stupefy
in
Catch-22
- 'They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony or stupefied with morphine, don't they?†
Chpt 18
- That bombardier's name, he remembered suddenly with another stupefying shock, had also been Yossarian!†
Chpt 21 *
- Almost on cue, a nursing mother padded past holding an infant in black rags, and Yossarian wanted to smash her too, because she reminded him of the barefoot boy in the thin shirt and thin, tattered trousers and of all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(stupefy) make one unable to think; or to completely surprise