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What's The Definition Of Numb?
[adj] so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"
[adj] lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [v] make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" Synonyms | Synonyms for Numb: afraid(p) | asleep(p) | benumb | benumbed | blunt | dull | insensible | petrified Related Terms | Find terms related to Numb: abate | allay | alleviate | aloof | anesthetize | anesthetized | apathetic | appease | asleep | assuage | bedaze | benumb | benumbed | besot | bite | blah | blase | blunt | bored | callous | casual | chill | chloroform | coldcock | comatose | cushion | cut | dead | deaden | deaden the pain | deadened | debilitated | desensitize | desensitized | detached | diminish | disinterested | dope | dopey | dormant | droopy | drug | drugged | dull | ease | ease matters | enervated | etherize | exanimate | foment | freeze | frost | frostbite | give relief | go through | heartless | heavy | hebetudinous | hopeless | immobilize | impassible | imperceptive | impercipient | in a stupor | inanimate | incurious | indifferent | inert | insensate | insensible | insensitive | insentient | insouciant | jaded | kayo | knock out | knock senseless | knock stiff | knock unconscious | KO | lackadaisical | languid | languorous | Laodicean | lay | lay out | leaden | lessen | lethargic | lifeless | listless | lull | lumpish | mitigate | mollify | moribund | mull | narcotize | nip | nonchalant | numbed | obdurate | obtund | obtuse | Olympian | pad | palliate | palsy | paralyze | passive | penetrate | phlegmatic | pierce | pluckless | pooped | poultice | pour balm into | pour oil on | put to sleep | reduce | refrigerate | relieve | remote | resigned | salve | sated | senseless | slack | slacken | slake | sleepy | slow | sluggish | soften | somnolent | soothe | soporific | spiritless | spunkless | stagnant | stagnating | stoic | stultified | stun | stupe | stupefied | stupefy | subdue | supine | thick-skinned | thick-witted | torpid | uncaring | unconcerned | unconscious | unfeeling | unfelt | uninterested | unperceptive | vegetable | vegetative | wan | weary | withdrawn | world-weary See Also | desensitise | desensitize Numb In Webster's Dictionary \Numb\, a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of
nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. [root]7. See {Nimble},
{Nomad}, and cf. {Benumb}.]
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and
motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the
fingers or limbs are numb with cold. ``A stony image, cold
and numb.'' --Shak.
2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
[Obs.] --Shak.
\Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Numbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Numbing}.] 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. |
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