Stupefy vs Bogglingly - What's the difference?
stupefy | bogglingly |
To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.
In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree
* {{quote-book, 1992, Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, edition=2006 ed.
, passage=It was bogglingly complex, with 212 speaking parts, more than 1000 camera setups, 95 scenes, 15 separate film stocks, and endless intercuts and flashbacks -- "everything but footnotes," Stone joked.}}
While boggling
* {{quote-news, 1863, December 26, , Court-Martial, All The Year Round, page=422
, passage=The prisoner rises with a bit of paper in his hand, and slowly and bogglingly reads from it what has been written down for him to say, and what is delivered thus, reads to the public in the newspaper report like shrewd spontaneous suggestions. }}
As a verb stupefy
is to dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.As an adverb bogglingly is
in a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.stupefy
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(en-verb)Derived terms
* stupefaction * stupefied * stupefiedness * stupefier * stupefyinglybogglingly
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