stupor

STOO-pernoun

Meaning a dazed state in which one can hardly think or act

Memory hook STOOP-or: stooping, dazed and foggy. Half asleep at dawn, Dev stoops over the table and pours orange juice onto his cereal: he is in a stupor.

Woken at five in the morning, Dev stumbled around in a stupor.

In context The news of the surprise win left the coach in a happy stupor; she stood on the sideline, blinking, unable to say a word.

Similar daze, trance, torpor, fog

Opposite alertness, awareness

From Latin stupor, “numbness, amazement,” from stupere (to be stunned).

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