Benumb

/biˈnʌm/

Synonyms for "benumb" (92 found)

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deprivation of sensationdesensitisedesensitizeemotional dullingsensory alteration

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Collocations

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benumbed emotionsbenumbed feetbenumbed fingersbenumbed handsbenumbing cold

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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[…] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.

Source: wiktionary

[…] the Cold was insufferable; nor indeed was it more painful than it was surprising, to come but ten Days before out of the old Castile where the Weather was not only warm but very hot, and immediately to feel a Wind from the Pyrenean Mountains, so very keen, so severely cold, as to be intollerable, and to endanger benumbing and perishing of our Fingers and Toes.

Source: wiktionary

‘My hands are so benumbed with the cold that I can scarcely handle my knife and fork.’

Source: wiktionary

[…] If this law Of nature be corrupted through affection, And that great minds, of partial indulgence To their benumbed wills, resist the same, There is a law in each well-order’d nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

Source: wiktionary

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