For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.
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Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
numbed — numbed; numbed·ly; … English syllables
numbed out — mod. nearly paralyzed by phencyclidine (PCP). (Drugs.) □ The teenager was nearly numbed out when they brought her in. □ Bart was totally numbed out on angel dust … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
numbed — nÊŒmbd adj. made numb (especially by cold); insensitive (to pain), anesthetized nÊŒm v. cause to be numb, make insensitive (to pain), anesthetize adj. anesthetized; lacking sensitivity (to pain); in shock; senseless … English contemporary dictionary
numbed — … Useful english dictionary
be|numbed — «bih NUHMD», adjective. made numb … Useful english dictionary
numbedly — numbed·ly … English syllables
numb — [[t]nʌ̱m[/t]] numbs, numbing, numbed 1) ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ If a part of your body is numb, you cannot feel anything there. He could feel his fingers growing numb at their tips... My legs felt numb and my toes ached. Derived words:… … English dictionary
numb — I UK [nʌm] / US adjective 1) a part of your body that is numb has no feeling After hours of sitting on the floor, her legs had gone numb. numb with: fingers numb with cold 2) not able to react or to show your emotions, often because of an extreme … English dictionary
Benumbed — Be*numbed , a. Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. {Be*numbed ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Benumbedness — Benumbed Be*numbed , a. Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. {Be*numbed ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
