What does unnumb mean?
Unnumb means To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness..
2013, Steve Ercolani, “Baseball League Creates ‘Islands’ of Refuge for Camden Kids,” npr.org, 16 July, 2013, “If that had happened in your community, everything [would have] stopped,” he says. “This says two things about these kids: One, they’re resilient, because we’re back to baseball. But two, some part of them is numb. And so we’re going to try and use baseball to unnumb that.”
I was now an invited contributor to art shows in the East. Sympathetic criticisms were unnumbing me; I desired to paint again.
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Unnumb means To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness..
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2013, Steve Ercolani, “Baseball League Creates ‘Islands’ of Refuge for Camden Kids,” npr.org, 16 July, 2013, “If that had happened in your community, everything [would have] stopped,” he says. “This says two things about these kids: One, they’re resilient, because we’re back to baseball. But two, some part of them is numb. And so we’re going to try and use baseball to unnumb that.”
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