Benumb
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /biˈnʌm/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Benumb is a verb meaning (transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
Meaning
(transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
More Meanings
- (transitive, figurative) To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).
Example Sentences
‘My hands are so benumbed with the cold that I can scarcely handle my knife and fork.’
I struggled, and trembled, and was so benumb’d with Terror, that I sunk down, not in a Fit, and yet not myself […]
Sorrowful isolation had benumbed her sense of reality, and the power of distinguishing outward and inward was continually slipping away from her.
[…] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.
Word Forms
- benumbs
- benumbing
- benumbed
Synonyms for benumb
Depending on context, synonyms include dull, blunt, numb.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blunt, dull, numb, unbenumb, renumb, unnumb.
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