benumbed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make numb or insensitive
    benumb; blunt; dull; numb.
    • The shock numbed her senses
  2. adjective satellite lacking sensation
    asleep; numb.
    • my foot is asleep
    • numb with cold
  3. adjective satellite having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
    dulled.
    • the mind of the audience is becoming dulled
    • the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond

WordNet

Be*numbed" adjective
Definitions
  1. Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

Webster 1913