benumb Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make numb or insensitive
    blunt; dull; numb.
    • The shock numbed her senses

WordNet

Be*numb" transitive verb
Etymology
OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away, AS. beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See Numb, a., and cf. Benim.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Benumbed present participle & verbal noun Benumbing
Definitions
  1. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
    The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Webster 1913