Numb
[nʌm]
Definition
(verb.) make numb or insensitive; 'The shock numbed her senses'.
(adj.) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; 'too numb with fear to move' .
Checker: Trent--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.) Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
(v. t.) To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Torpid, benumbed.
Inputed by Hilary
Definition
adj. deprived of sensation or motion: powerless to feel or act: stupefied: motionless: (Shak.) causing numbness.—v.t. to make numb: to deaden: to render motionless:—pr.p. numbing (num′ing); pa.p. numbed (numd).—adj. Numb′-cold (Shak.) numbed with cold: causing numbness.—n. Numb′ness state of being numb: condition of living body in which it has lost the power of feeling: torpor.
Edited by Linda
Examples
- Her head felt dazed and numb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nearly all were weeping but some were numb with what they had seen and the tears had dried in them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was coughing from the TNT fumes and he felt numb all through himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- 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.
- The pang passed, and nothing but the dull numbing pain of it remained. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Number Three, Four, Five, often. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Maynard