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Benumb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make numb, especially by cold.

v. To make inactive; dull: "The anesthetic afternoon benumbs, sickens our senses” ( Karl Shapiro). See Synonyms at daze.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

v. To deaden.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Benumbed.

To make torpid; deprive of sensation: as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

To stupefy; render inactive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make numb or insensitive

Word Usage

"By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'.""

Verb Form

benumbed benumbing benumbs

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

desensitise desensitize

Form

benumbed benumbing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stupefy numb dull paralyze

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