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numb

verb

1 numb

Make numb or insensitive:
— The shock numbed her senses.

synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull.

Roget 823: be insensible etc. adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility etc. n.; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for etc. 866; have no interest in, ... show more

adjective

1 numb

Lacking sensation:
— Numb with cold.

synonyms: asleep, benumbed.

Roget 381: numb; benumbed etc. v.; deadened; intangible, impalpable.    (2) Heat

Roget 383: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, ... show more

2 numb

followed by `to' Not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive:
— Numb to the cries for mercy.

synonym: dead.

Roget 376: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; ... show more

3 numb

So frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified.


Moby thesaurus: KO, Laodicean, Olympian, abate, allay, alleviate, aloof, anesthetize, anesthetized, apathetic, appease, asleep, assuage, bedaze, benumb, benumbed, besot, bite, blah, blase ... show more.

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numbed

adjective

Roget 823: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, ... show more

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