Numbed
[nʌmd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Numb
Checker: Osbert
Examples
- When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I'd far better be a walking than a getting numbed and dreary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Oh, it is no trouble; I dare say your own hands are almost numbed with cold. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It ain't that you've been a-struggling, mother, but you've been stiff and numbed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hitherto I had been acting, and action had numbed thought. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His hands,' taking up one of them, which dropped like a leaden weight, 'get numbed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She went out one evening, numbed by this constant essential suffering. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The older man seemed numbed and dazed with a heavy, sullen expression upon his strongly-marked face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is a little longer about this than usual, his hands being numbed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Osbert