Numb - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |nʌm|  American pronunciation of the word numb
Brit.  |ˈnʌm|  British pronunciation of the word numb

verb

- make numb or insensitive (syn: benumb, blunt, dull)
The shock numbed her senses

adjective

- lacking sensation (syn: asleep, benumbed)
numb with cold
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive (syn: dead)
numb to the cries for mercy
- so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
too numb with fear to move

Extra examples

The side of my face was still numb an hour after the surgery.

I had a numb feeling in my toes.

It was so cold that my fingers went numb.

A stroke can cause one side of your body to go numb.

Her son had died and she just felt numb.

He stood there numb with fear.

My fingers were so numb I could hardly write.

The anaesthetic made his whole face go numb.

I just sat there, numb with fear.

She watched numbly as Matt walked away.

It caused some numbness in my hand.

The cold had numbed her fingers.

He was numbed by the shock of his wife's death.

The shock numbed her senses

My arm was numb and tingling.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: numb
he/she/it: numbs
present participle: numbing
past tense: numbed
past participle: numbed
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