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Numb \Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed (n[u^]md); p. pr. &
vb. n. Numbing (n[u^]m"[i^]ng).]
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to
stupefy.
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For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.
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Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson.
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Numb \Numb\ (n[u^]m), 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.]
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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.
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2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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numb
adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]

2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]

3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move"
v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
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numb

abgestorben adj
numb

benommen; wie betäubt
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betäuben; taub machen; gefühllos machen
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taub; gefühllos; empfindungslos adj
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165 Moby Thesaurus words for "numb":
KO, Laodicean, Olympian, 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, lackadaisical,
languid, languorous, lay, lay out, leaden, lessen, lethargic,
lifeless, listless, lull, lumpish, mitigate, mollify, moribund,
mull, narcotize, nip, nonchalant, numbed, obdurate, obtund, obtuse,
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



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