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Benumb

verb
(past & past part. benumbed; pres. part. benumbing)
1.
Make numb or insensitive.  Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb.






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"Benumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... o'er me; I lay down to sleep on the snow. 'Twas ill done, and with store of wolves hard by. Had I loved thee as thou dost deserve, I had shown more manhood. But oh, sweet love, the drowsiness that did crawl o'er me desolate, and benumb me, was more than nature. And so I slept; and but that God was better to us, than I to thee or to myself, from that sleep I ne'er had waked; so all do say. I had slept an hour or two, as I suppose, but no more, when a hand did shake me rudely. I awoke to my troubles. ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... inspection well. His clothes were dirty, especially about the front of vest and coat; there was everything to suggest an entire lack of neatness in personal habits; more than that, the face at the time bore unmistakable signs that enough alcohol had been drunk to benumb, although not to stupefy, his faculties: the eye was bloodshot; the face, weather-beaten as it was, was flabby. In spite of all this, Caius had expected a more villainous-looking person, and so great ...
— The Mermaid - A Love Tale • Lily Dougall



Words linked to "Benumb" :   dull, numb, desensitise, desensitize, blunt



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