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Numb   /nəm/   Listen
Numb

adjective
1.
Lacking sensation.  Synonyms: asleep, benumbed.  "Numb with cold"
2.
(followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.  Synonym: dead.  "Numb to the cries for mercy"
3.
So frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified.
verb
(past & past part. numbed; pres. part. numbing)
1.
Make numb or insensitive.  Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull.



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"Numb" Quotes from Famous Books



... we had ever seen, and the biggest army beleaguered Belgium had ever seen, and one of the biggest, most perfect armies the world has ever seen. We watched the gray-clad columns pass until the mind grew numb at the prospect of computing their number. To think of trying to count them was like trying to count the leaves on a tree or the pebbles ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... alone into the world of pure, new snow. But the dazzling whiteness seemed to beat upon her till it hurt her, she felt the cold was slowly strangling her soul. Her head felt dazed and numb. ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... time were numb with cold. We had been ascending steadily, and Byfield's English thermometer stood at thirteen degrees. I borrowed from the heap a thicker overcoat, in the pocket of which I was lucky enough to find a pair of furred ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... some rich woman, on a winter's morn, Eyes through her silken curtains the poor drudge 300 Who with numb blacken'd fingers makes her fire— At cock-crow, on a starlit winter's morn, When the frost flowers the whiten'd window panes— And wonders how she lives, and what the thoughts Of that poor drudge may be; so Rustum ...
— Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School • O. J. Stevenson
... her tone and manner made me feel strangely; a chill crept over me, and for a second I felt numb. ...
— The Harvest of Years • Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell


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