Definitions for: Numb


[adj] so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"
[adj] lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[v] make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"



Webster (1913) Definition: Numb, a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of
nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. [root]7. See Nimble,
Nomad, and cf. Benumb.]
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and
motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the
fingers or limbs are numb with cold. ``A stony image, cold
and numb.'' --Shak.

2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
[Obs.] --Shak.


Numb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Numbing.]
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to
stupefy.

For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.

Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson.

Synonyms: afraid(p), asleep(p), benumb, benumbed, blunt, dull, insensible, petrified

See Also: desensitise, desensitize

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