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Definition

a state in which there is little ability to think — as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a stupor.
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

There was nothing heroic about a drunken stupor by the beach.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

stupor = state in which there is little ability to think — as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned

He froze to death one January night, having tumbled in a stupor to the snow-covered pavement of a back alley.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

Exhaustion finally dragged him into a stuporous sleep.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

stuporous = very deep

Her son sits up at last, in a stupor of sleepiness.
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

She still has a hangover from last night's stupor.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think

He lay in a stupor for some unknown length of time.
Stephen King -- Misery
I watched the road ahead in a kind of stupor.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
Jamie has become restless, sensing his father's presence, struggling up from his stupor.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
"You aren't serious," I say, coming out of my sullen stupor.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Urgg," the giant mumbled in a stupor.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
She stayed alone in a kind of reverie—a sort of stupor.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
He thrust it in my hand like a man in a stupor, weeping, telling me to get out.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
He couldn't continue in his hero role if he was sitting around the day room all the time in a shock stupor.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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