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adjective
- 1. deprived of physical or emotional feeling: "a hoarse shout cut through his benumbed senses"
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1. To make numb, especially by cold. 2. To render senseless or inactive, as from shock or boredom: The dull skit benumbed the audience. [Middle English binomen, from past participle of binimen, to take away, from Old English beniman : be-, away; see be- + niman, to take; see numb .] be·numb′ment n.
unable to feel because of cold, shock, etc.: a face benumbed with cold. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unable to feel anything. anaesthesia. asleep. dead. numbingly. numbly. numbness. (Definition of benumbed from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of benumbed. benumbed.
incapable of physical sensation. adjective. having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure. “the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond”. synonyms: dulled. unabsorbed, uninterested. not having or showing interest.
unable to feel because of cold, shock, etc.: a face benumbed with cold. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unable to feel anything. anaesthesia. anesthesia. anesthetize. asleep. dead. numbingly. numbly. numbness. (Definition of benumbed from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
1. : to make inactive : deaden. 2. : to make numb especially by cold. Synonyms. blunt. cauterize. dampen. deaden. dull. numb. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of benumb in a Sentence. a succession of personal tragedies had benumbed him to all grief.
benumbed in British English. (bɪˈnʌmd ) adjective. 1. made numb; very cold. 2. literary. showing no feeling; stupefied. Motorists appear benumbed and line up meekly at the pumps. Collins English Dictionary.
Benumb definition: to make numb; deprive of sensation.
transitive verb. 1. to make numb; deprive of sensation. benumbed by cold. 2. to render inactive; deaden or stupefy. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
2 senses: 1. to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold 2. to make inactive; stupefy (the mind, senses,.... Click for more definitions.
To render senseless or inactive, as from shock or boredom. The dull skit benumbed the audience. American Heritage. To deaden the mind, will, or feelings of. My mind was benumbed by grief. Webster's New World. To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. Wiktionary. More Verb Definitions (1) Synonyms: dull. blunt. numb. desensitize. daze. stun. deaden.
