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stupor
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  • After her sudden death, he was in a kind of stupor for days.
  • Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a stupor.  (source)
  • More pain snapped Thomas out of his stupor.  (source)
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  • There was nothing heroic about a drunken stupor by the beach.  (source)
    stupor = state in which there is little ability to think -- as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned
  • Most of the Americans were in stupors or asleep.†  (source)
  • Exhaustion finally dragged him into a stuporous sleep.  (source)
    stuporous = very deep
  • He spoke it aloud this time as he stepped into the huge and stuporously warm West Country kitchen.†  (source)
  • He froze to death one January night, having tumbled in a stupor to the snow-covered pavement of a back alley.  (source)
    stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think
  • Everyone rouses from their sated, full-bellied stupors to say good-bye, and, this time, Cedric moves quickly through the line.†  (source)
  • She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."†  (source)
  • She still has a hangover from last night's stupor.  (source)
  • All summer Perry undulated between half-awake stupors and sickly, sweat-drenched sleep.†  (source)
  • Perhaps just stuporous.†  (source)
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