Get to know Stupor better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like stupefaction or daze.
Stupor in a sentence
Stupor meaning
- A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.
- A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
Synonyms of Stupor
Using Stupor
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness. | A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
- Useful related words include: stupefaction, daze, shock, grogginess.
- In the example corpus, stupor often appears in combinations such as: into stupor, drunken stupor, to stupor.
Context around Stupor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 11 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stupor
- In this selection, "stupor" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, drunken, bleary, shocked, playing, laden and disorientation stand out and add context to how "stupor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a drunken stupor and his drunken stupor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stupor" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stupor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Salyo would drink himself to a stupor until he developed tuberculosis. (11 words)
Symptoms may progress to stupor, disorientation, coma, convulsions, paralysis and possibly death. (12 words)
I just don’t see Stefano hooking up with Viv, unless it happened during a drunken stupor. (17 words)
Chief among these will be the presence of any drugs or alcohol in Brooks' system (one theory is Brooks wandered off and drowned himself by accident while in a stupor) and a more extensive accounting of the injuries to his body. (41 words)
Speaking of minority rights, they segue into the song ‘Chup hain sab’, provoking the audience to break its silence against injustice and look beyond the stupor of their comfortable lives to the struggles of marginalised communities. (36 words)
If you pets are going to be exposed to hot weather, know the symptoms of overheating, such as: excessive panting or difficulty breathing, increased heart and respiratory rate, drooling, mild weakness, stupor or even collapse. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It looks more like the kind of thing you'd make in a bleary stupor at 3 AM than a well-thought-out piece of corporate synergy.
On a night out with this potential client, the girls drink themselves into a stupor, playing slapping games, drinking thousand-year egg shots, and vomiting all over the place.
Salyo would drink himself to a stupor until he developed tuberculosis.
From the moment she arrives, Tamara is wandering in a haze, a shell-shocked stupor that borders on comical, at times, and makes others perceive her as weak.
Chief among these will be the presence of any drugs or alcohol in Brooks' system (one theory is Brooks wandered off and drowned himself by accident while in a stupor) and a more extensive accounting of the injuries to his body.
Haradatta gives her a glass of milk laced with an intoxicant so that he could seduce her in her stupor-laden state.
President Lungu should give Zambians his source of these pronouncements lest we think he has no vision and speaks from a sele-leque stupor.
Speaking of minority rights, they segue into the song ‘Chup hain sab’, provoking the audience to break its silence against injustice and look beyond the stupor of their comfortable lives to the struggles of marginalised communities.
Ted suddenly has a flashback to 2005 showing that, prior to meeting Trudy at his apartment, he stole a pineapple from the Captain's house during his drunken stupor.
The suspect narrowly escaped being lynched to death by an angry mob who beat him to stupor at Umuomaku Community in Orumba South LGA of where he committed the grievous crime.
Brooke Logan Forrester (Katherine Kelly Lang) would be livid if she knew what he had done in his drunken stupor.
Come Monday, however, most progressives were out of their melancholy stupor and determined to bring the fight for the obstacles that will come between now and the next election.
Maybe it will take another dead child on a beach to shake the world out of its self-interested stupor.
On television Friday night, boisterous pro-Sisi host Amr Adib lambasted Aly, the businessman, showing footage of him allegedly in a drunken stupor.
After a lengthy period of silence, Ben Ralph visits the apartment to find his brother on the floor, motionless, in a stupor.
If you pets are going to be exposed to hot weather, know the symptoms of overheating, such as: excessive panting or difficulty breathing, increased heart and respiratory rate, drooling, mild weakness, stupor or even collapse.
I just don’t see Stefano hooking up with Viv, unless it happened during a drunken stupor.
Medication keeps him in a semi-stupor and he rarely talks; despite many attempts, he did not respond to me.
Some time after midnight, in my half-conscious stupor, I heard a lot of rustling on both sides of the tree.
Symptoms may progress to stupor, disorientation, coma, convulsions, paralysis and possibly death.
Common combinations with stupor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- into stupor 5×
- drunken stupor 5×
- to stupor 3×
- stupor and 3×
- stupor at 2×
- in stupor 2×
- the stupor 2×