Unnumb
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unnumb is a verb meaning To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness.
Meaning
To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness.
Example Sentences
I was now an invited contributor to art shows in the East. Sympathetic criticisms were unnumbing me; I desired to paint again.
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.”
Word Forms
- unnumbs
- unnumbing
- unnumbed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unbenumb, numb, benumb, renumb, undumb, unsense.
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