Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stupor
IPA transcription: [st'upɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: daze, shock, stupor
    Meaning: the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's death left him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock"
  • Synonyms: grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness
    Meaning: marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor"
Usage examples
  • But she was lapsing into a state of stupor.
  • Sydney endeavoured to rouse the man from his stupor.
  • At these words Yaquita and Minha, struck with stupor, stopped without any power to move.
  • There breathed from her whole person the stupor of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning.
  • She came on meekly after him, scarcely thinking in her stupor where she was going, and glad (in a dead, heavy way) that some one was deciding things for her.