numb Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb make numb or insensitive
benumb; blunt; dull.
- The shock numbed her senses
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adjective satellite lacking sensation
benumbed; asleep.
- my foot is asleep
- numb with cold
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adjective satellite (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
dead.
- passersby were dead to our plea for help
- numb to the cries for mercy
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adjective satellite so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
- too numb with fear to move
WordNet
Numb adjective
Etymology
OE.Definitions
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Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.as, the fingers or limbs are .numb with cold -
Producing numbness; benumbing; Obs. Shak.as, the .numb , cold night
Numb transitive verb
Wordforms
Definitions
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.