About The Word Benumb
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Benumb
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What's The Definition Of Benumb?
[v] make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Benumb: blunt | dull | numb Related Terms | Find terms related to Benumb: abate | allay | alleviate | anesthetize | appease | assuage | bedaze | bemuse | besot | bite | blunt | chill | chloroform | coldcock | cushion | cut | deaden | deaden the pain | desensitize | diminish | dope | drug | dull | ease | ease matters | etherize | foment | freeze | frost | frostbite | give relief | go through | kayo | knock out | knock senseless | knock stiff | knock unconscious | KO | lay | lay out | lessen | lull | mitigate | mollify | mull | narcotize | nip | numb | obtund | pad | palliate | palsy | paralyze | penetrate | petrify | pierce | poultice | pour balm into | pour oil on | put to sleep | reduce | refrigerate | relieve | salve | slacken | slake | soften | soothe | stun | stupe | stupefy | subdue See Also | desensitise | desensitize Benumb In Webster's Dictionary \Be*numb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benumbed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Benumbing}.] [OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away,
AS. beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See {Numb}, a., and
cf. {Benim}.]
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.
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