Both Uses
stupefy
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- He listened to it in a fever and he now began to understand how Christine Daae was able to appear one evening, before the stupefied audience, with accents of a beauty hitherto unknown, of a superhuman exaltation, while doubtless still under the influence of the mysterious and invisible master.†
Chpt 9stupefied = made unable to think; or completely surprised
- He hated Mamma Valerius for giving him such news as that with such stupefying calmness.†
Chpt 11 *stupefying = making one unable to think; or completely surprising
Definitions:
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(1)
(stupefy) make one unable to think; or to completely surprise
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)