Translations for „stupefaction“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

stupefaction [ˌstju:pɪˈfækʃən, Am ˌstu:pə-, ˌstju:-] N no pl form

1. stupefaction (daze):

stupefaction

otępienie nt

2. stupefaction (shock, surprise):

stupefaction

osłupienie nt

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

It is false because a press with the absolute, unaccountable power to mediate reality can not but induce blindness and stupefaction and incomprehension in the rest of us.

thefederalist.com

When he presents to us his stupefaction and shame, his disgrace, it is hard not to have in mind the energetic man with which the play opened.

www.smh.com.au

As the week unfolded, my disbelief gave way to stupefaction, then revulsion.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Punctuation, moods, and tenses, also disappeared in order to be consistent with analogy and stupefaction.

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To the great stupefaction of the spectators, not one of the riders took advantage of what had been provided.

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This general stupefaction came not simply at what happened, but at how it was all put together.

www.telegraph.co.uk

The process of communicating the surprise is art while the stupefaction is the reaction to this discovery.

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I watched with sheer stupefaction as this entire process functioned with a sense of rhythm.

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Syntax would act as a filter in which analogies had to be processed and so analogies would lose their characteristic stupefaction.

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As a traveling salesman and correspondence clerk, his research and thought was time-limited: he complained of serving the knavery of merchants and the stupefaction of deceitful and degrading duties.

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