benumb
verb/biˈnʌm/
Etymology
From be- + numb.
Definitions
To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
- […] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.
- ‘My hands are so benumbed with the cold that I can scarcely handle my knife and fork.’
To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).
- I struggled, and trembled, and was so benumb’d with Terror, that I sunk down, not in a Fit, and yet not myself […]
- Sorrowful isolation had benumbed her sense of reality, and the power of distinguishing outward and inward was continually slipping away from her.
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Derived
benumbed, benumbedness, benumber, benumbingly, benumbment, unbenumb
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA