stupor

stupor
noun
ADJECTIVE
alcoholic, dazed, drug-induced, drunken

He fell into an alcoholic stupor.

VERB + STUPOR
drink yourself into, fall into, go into, sink into

As the vodka took effect, he gradually fell into a drunken stupor.

come out of, emerge from
rouse sb from, shake sb out of, snap sb out of

The noise of someone banging at the door roused her from her stupor.

PREPOSITION
in a stupor

He fell to the ground in a stupor.


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  • stupor — stȕpor m DEFINICIJA pat. 1. stanje psihičke i motoričke ili samo psihičke zakočenosti, najčešće u duševnih bolesnika [pasti u stupor] 2. sopor SINTAGMA katatoni stupor pat. najteži oblik stupora, totalno i trajno zakočenje; sudski stupor naglo… …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Stupor — is the lack of critical cognitive function and level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupure , meaning insensible. Being… …   Wikipedia

  • stupor — stúpor s. n. Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  STÚPOR s. n. (med.) stupoare (2). (< lat. stupor) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • stupor — late 14c., from L. stupor insensibility, numbness, dullness, from stupere be stunned (see STUPID (Cf. stupid)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Stupor — Stu por, n. [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.] 1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. [1913 Webster] 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stupor — (lat.), Gefühllosigkeit, Taubsinn der Mieder, Betäubung; S. artuum, das Einschlafen der Glieder; S. formīcans, so v.w. Ameisenkriechen; S. mentis, Stumpfsinn; S. universalis, Unempfindlichkeit; S. vigĭlans, so v.w. Starrsucht …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Stūpor — (lat.), Erstarrung, dumpfe Starrheit; als Geisteskrankheit soviel wie Stumpfsinn (s. d.) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Stupor — (lat.), Erstarrung, Blödsinn …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • stupor — index inertia, insentience, prostration, sloth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • stupor — torpor, torpidity, lassitude, *lethargy, languor Analogous words: phlegm, impassivity, stolidity (see under IMPASSIVE): inertness or inertia, passivity, supineness, inactivity, idleness (see corresponding adjectives at INACTIVE): insensibility,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • stupor — meaning ‘a dazed state’, is spelt or in BrE and AmE …   Modern English usage

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