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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
numb
adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]
2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move"
v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Numb \Numb\ (n[u^]m), 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.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
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2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Numb \Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed (n[u^]md); p. pr. &
vb. n. Numbing (n[u^]m"[i^]ng).]
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to
stupefy.
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For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.
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Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson.
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Thesaurus Results for numb:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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