stu·por

(sto͞o′pər, styo͞o′-)

A state of reduced sensibility or consciousness: staggered around in a drunken stupor.

[Middle English, from Latin, from stupēre, to be stunned.]

stu′por·ous adj.

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stupor

(ˈstjuːpə)

1. (Pathology) a state of unconsciousness

2. mental dullness; torpor

[C17: from Latin, from stupēre to be aghast]

ˈstuporous adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

stu•por

(ˈstu pər, ˈstyu-)

n.

1. suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: a drunken stupor.

2. mental torpor; apathy; stupefaction.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: astonishment, insensibility =stup(ēre) to be numb or stunned + -or -or¹]

stu′por•ous, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	stupor - 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" daze, shock stupefaction - a feeling of stupefied astonishment
	2.	stupor - 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" semiconsciousness, stupefaction, grogginess unconsciousness - a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment

stupor

noun daze, numbness, unconsciousness, trance, coma, inertia, lethargy, torpor, stupefaction, insensibility He was drinking himself into a stupor every night.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

stupor

noun

1. A deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity:

dullness, hebetude, languidness, languor, lassitude, leadenness, lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity, torpor.

2. A stunned or bewildered condition:

befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, daze, discombobulation, fog, muddle, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, stupefaction, trance.

Translations

خَبَل، غُيْبوبَه، خَدَر

otupěníztuhnutí

døs

Benommenheit

stupeur stupéfaction

sljóleiki; hálfmeîvitundarleysi

stupore torpore

nustėrimas

apstulbumsstupors

sløvhetstilstand

ступор

omámenosť

sersemlemesersemlik

昏迷

stupor

[ˈstjuːpəʳ] N → estupor m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stupor

[ˈstjuːpə^r] n → stupeur f
in a stupor → frappé(e) de stupeur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stupor

n → Benommenheit f; he lay/sat there in a stupor → er lag/saß benommen or apathisch or teilnahmslos da; to be in a drunken stupor → sinnlos betrunken or im Vollrausch sein

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stupor

[ˈstjuːpəʳ] n (from heat, alcohol) → intontimento, stordimento

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

stupor

(ˈstjuːpə) noun

a half-conscious, dazed or bewildered condition caused by eg alcohol, drugs, shock etc. He was in a drunken stupor.

stu·por

n. estupor, letargo.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

stupor

n estupor m

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She seemed, having shaken off the stupor of intoxication, to be striving to escape from her executioner.

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On the balloon taking ground, Kennedy and Joe awoke from their stupor.

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First he cast upon the dogs which were guarding them a stupor and strangles, so that the dogs forgot the cows and lost the power of barking.

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The huge height of the buildings, running up to ten and fifteen storeys, the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers, the wares of the merchants in their windows, the hubbub and endless stir, the foul smells and the fine clothes, and a hundred other particulars too small to mention, struck me into a kind of stupor of surprise, so that I let the crowd carry me to and fro; and yet all the time what I was thinking of was Alan at Rest-and-be-Thankful; and all the time (although you would think I would not choose but be delighted with these braws and novelties) there was a cold gnawing in my inside like a remorse for something wrong.

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The two first are in a sleep or stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it.

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And there they would eat what they had to eat, and afterward, because there was only their misery to talk of, they would crawl into bed and fall into a stupor and never stir until it was time to get up again, and dress by candlelight, and go back to the machines.

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She stayed alone in a kind of reverie--a sort of stupor. Step by step she lived over every instant of the time she had been with Robert after he had entered Mademoiselle Reisz's door.

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Presently they awoke from the stupor which already was beginning to overcome them, and crept out, shivering with cold and wrapped from head to foot in blankets.

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Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.

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So she bled him, and he fell into a stupor which lasted nearly all that day, so that he awoke weak and exhausted from loss of blood.

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In a kind of stupor I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them.

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"A friend!" murmured the Comte de la Fere, at witnessing with stupor this monstrous alliance of words; -- "friends!

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