stupefies

Acrasia is wily; she stupefies men with sex and turns them into pigs, but her bower is all music, all delight.

Young, handsome and like everyone in his trade continually nearing the end of what he knows will be a very brief life, he stupefies himself with beer between jobs.

It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination.

The Arab Spring and Islamic Winter took the world by surprise, but it is Iran that still stupefies with its unpredictability — despite being so rigorously scrutinized.

The parent stupefies the child for the parent’s good.