benumbed

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Lacking interest; dulled
Lacking sensation; numb
Simple past tense and past participle of benumb
past of benumb
having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled"; "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"
{s} numbed, unable to feel; frozen
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind
lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
benumb
To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic
benumb
To deaden
benumb
to make something numb, especially by cold
benumb
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold
benumb
make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
benumb
{f} numb; numb by freezing
benumb
to dull the senses, especially by the use of anesthetic
benumbed

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    [ bi-'n&m ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English benomen, from benomen, past participle of benimen to deprive, from Old English beniman, from be- + niman to take; more at NIMBLE.
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