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Definition of numb in English: numbadjective nʌmnəm 1(of a part of the body) deprived of the power of physical sensation. my feet were numb with cold Example sentencesExamples - Anna came in saying that she felt emotionally numb.
- He reached to grab the rifle but could not because his forearm felt numb and dead.
- I just then began to finally feel that I was freezing; the numb feeling must have worn away.
- Those stuck behind the police are arrested and dragged away in plastic ziplock handcuffs that hurt like hell and make your hands go numb.
- When the door opened and she said hello, I nearly went numb with shock.
- You're standing beside a beer cooler on the bank of a frozen Siberian river, and your nose is numb with cold.
- My hands were getting numb with the cold and I'd got blood all down the side of my head where the oxygen bottle had hit me.
- She was in school in Norway - where her father Peter was working in the oil industry - when her hand started to feel numb while she was writing.
- I awoke to find this numb sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache.
- He woke numb and cold, inside a carved hole in the rock.
- Only when I emerge, exhausted, on the far side do I realise I've been gripping my handlebars so hard, my fingers have gone numb.
- But now that his marriage has broken up, he feels numb again.
- McKeown says he felt numb when the verdict came through.
- I then begin to feel numb, but this side-effect is temporary.
- He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go numb with cold.
- I lay there still in a numb daze from the shock of Mike's mysterious and sudden death.
- I still felt numb and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real.
- His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while.
- So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go numb on hard wooden chairs.
- After a minute or so, when the skin is numb, the anaesthetist will insert the larger epidural needle through the skin and towards the epidural space.
Synonyms deprived of sensation, without feeling, numbed, benumbed, dead, deadened, desensitized, insensible, insensate, senseless, unfeeling anaesthetized, drugged dazed, stunned, stupefied, in shock, paralysed, petrified, immobilized, frozen, chilled rare torpefied - 1.1 Unable to think, feel, or respond normally.
the tragic events left us shocked and numb Example sentencesExamples - It's surprising that one event follows another in such a way that we are left totally numb.
- I had been in a meeting with an artist and was left totally numb.
verb nʌmnəm [with object]1Deprive of feeling or responsiveness. the cold had numbed her senses Example sentencesExamples - If the alcohol hadn't numbed my senses I'd have been rolling on the floor.
- And so she bravely walked down 2nd Avenue, fighting the elements, the cold wind numbing her soft little fingers.
- Even though the cold had numbed her slightly and she was shivering to death, she could still feel the pain in her jelly - like ankle.
- The cold stone numbs my bare feet. Gathering my nightdress up I climb up onto the balcony wall.
- A mixture of nerves and cold numbed my fingers and my mind.
- It was glacial in my hands, and the cold metal numbed them.
- Then all I remember is cold, such cold it numbed me to my very bones.
- Sitting in the rocking chair, Beth Durand lets the air conditioner blow her hair about her head, her eyes closed against the cold that almost numbs her skin.
- Are their senses numbed by visual culture, we wonder, or are they simply getting the programmes they deserve?
- This is drunk warm out of small earthenware cups or chilled depending on the season, and in my experience the hot stuff numbs your senses like hemlock.
- I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
- I felt my lungs fill up with water, I could feel the cold numbing my body.
- The girl was outside at the time, watching it go down and feeling the air grow colder, nippy at first but soon so cold that it numbed the girl's fingers.
- As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to numb the senses of even the most fanatical supporter.
- Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again.
- A painful headache numbed his senses, and his nose was so clogged up he couldn't speak correctly.
- His body movements were labored and his senses were numbed.
- Lia washed her hands, the cold water numbing her fingertips.
- Fishing out her key, she inserted it in the lock, her movements jerky, the cold finally numbing her muscles.
- Cold air numbed her bare fingers and she held them close to her, putting her hands in the pockets of her coat.
Synonyms deadening, desensitizing, benumbing, anaesthetizing, anaesthetic paralysing rare torpefying freezing, glacial, raw, piercing, cutting, bitter, arctic, polar - 1.1 Cause (a sensation) to be felt less intensely; deaden.
vodka might numb the pain in my hand Example sentencesExamples - It seemed to be numbing the pain, at least temporarily.
- Putting ice on your heel or rolling your foot over a can of frozen juice will numb the pain, he says.
- But he did give me a sample of Biofreeze - one of those gels that heats up and numbs the pain.
- It brings down inflammation and numbs pain within an hour, McCaleb says.
- I'm sure circumcised men are probably far better lovers due to the fact that their sensations are numbed.
- The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
- She drank three small glasses of hard liquor first to numb the pain, he said.
- Many use drugs or alcohol in an attempt to numb their pain.
- Insiders worry that the troubled star may turn his back on his recovery and hit the drugs to numb his pain over the end of the two-month relationship.
- He told the police in interview that it would numb the pain at the time but afterwards it would be ‘bad, really bad’.
- We numbed the pain of what was to come by eating and drinking.
- The cafe owner comments that he's relieved that crack isn't available in Nablus - he thinks people would turn to it to numb their pain.
- I found the only thing that numbed the pain was whisky, so I began drinking a bottle a day.
- The various band members found different ways to numb the pain.
- Laughing gas is used by doctors and dentists as an anaesthetic or analgesic to numb pain, sedate and allay anxiety.
- However, being drunk has always numbed my pain, and for that, the hangover has always been worth it.
- People are able to deceive themselves and numb their pain through denial.
- The need to numb the pain of their existence is understood.
- Perhaps, though, they were just drinking to numb the pain of being rich and famous.
- The growth of drug abuse testifies to the increasing numbers of people wanting to escape their reality, or at least numb its pain.
Synonyms deaden, deprive of sensation, benumb, desensitize, render insensitive, dull anaesthetize, drug daze, stun, stupefy, paralyse, petrify, immobilize, freeze, chill rare torpefy, obtund
Derivatives adverb ˈnʌmliˈnəmli Shannon stared numbly at her boyfriend, shocked completely out of her wits. Example sentencesExamples - He would not, as he walked out of his Chiswick house into the sunshine, have considered that by lunchtime he would be staring numbly at her dead body.
- He paused for a moment, collecting his thoughts I guess, as I sat looking at him numbly.
- The original film ended with Katharine Ross numbly pushing her shopping cart down the grocery aisle.
- Dressing for the trip home, I stared numbly at the clothes hanging in my closet.
Origin Late Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim 'take'. Old English used to have a verb nim meaning ‘take’. It was one of those verb, like sing, that show the past form by changing the vowel. In this case the past was nome ‘taken’. This then evolved into numb for sensation that had been taken away.
Rhymes become, benumb, Brum, bum, chum, crumb, drum, glum, gum, ho-hum, hum, Kara Kum, lum, mum, plum, plumb, Rhum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, slum, some, strum, stum, succumb, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, yum-yum Definition of numb in US English: numbadjectivenəmnəm 1Deprived of the power of sensation. my feet were numb with cold Example sentencesExamples - His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while.
- So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go numb on hard wooden chairs.
- You're standing beside a beer cooler on the bank of a frozen Siberian river, and your nose is numb with cold.
- Those stuck behind the police are arrested and dragged away in plastic ziplock handcuffs that hurt like hell and make your hands go numb.
- I lay there still in a numb daze from the shock of Mike's mysterious and sudden death.
- Only when I emerge, exhausted, on the far side do I realise I've been gripping my handlebars so hard, my fingers have gone numb.
- When the door opened and she said hello, I nearly went numb with shock.
- McKeown says he felt numb when the verdict came through.
- He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go numb with cold.
- My hands were getting numb with the cold and I'd got blood all down the side of my head where the oxygen bottle had hit me.
- I still felt numb and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real.
- After a minute or so, when the skin is numb, the anaesthetist will insert the larger epidural needle through the skin and towards the epidural space.
- I just then began to finally feel that I was freezing; the numb feeling must have worn away.
- I then begin to feel numb, but this side-effect is temporary.
- She was in school in Norway - where her father Peter was working in the oil industry - when her hand started to feel numb while she was writing.
- He woke numb and cold, inside a carved hole in the rock.
- I awoke to find this numb sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache.
- Anna came in saying that she felt emotionally numb.
- But now that his marriage has broken up, he feels numb again.
- He reached to grab the rifle but could not because his forearm felt numb and dead.
Synonyms deprived of sensation, without feeling, numbed, benumbed, dead, deadened, desensitized, insensible, insensate, senseless, unfeeling - 1.1 Unable to think, feel, or respond normally.
the tragic events left us shocked and numb Example sentencesExamples - It's surprising that one event follows another in such a way that we are left totally numb.
- I had been in a meeting with an artist and was left totally numb.
verbnəmnəm [with object]1Deprive of feeling or responsiveness. the cold had numbed her senses Example sentencesExamples - And so she bravely walked down 2nd Avenue, fighting the elements, the cold wind numbing her soft little fingers.
- It was glacial in my hands, and the cold metal numbed them.
- A mixture of nerves and cold numbed my fingers and my mind.
- Then all I remember is cold, such cold it numbed me to my very bones.
- Even though the cold had numbed her slightly and she was shivering to death, she could still feel the pain in her jelly - like ankle.
- As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to numb the senses of even the most fanatical supporter.
- The cold stone numbs my bare feet. Gathering my nightdress up I climb up onto the balcony wall.
- Sitting in the rocking chair, Beth Durand lets the air conditioner blow her hair about her head, her eyes closed against the cold that almost numbs her skin.
- Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again.
- Fishing out her key, she inserted it in the lock, her movements jerky, the cold finally numbing her muscles.
- A painful headache numbed his senses, and his nose was so clogged up he couldn't speak correctly.
- This is drunk warm out of small earthenware cups or chilled depending on the season, and in my experience the hot stuff numbs your senses like hemlock.
- Are their senses numbed by visual culture, we wonder, or are they simply getting the programmes they deserve?
- Cold air numbed her bare fingers and she held them close to her, putting her hands in the pockets of her coat.
- I felt my lungs fill up with water, I could feel the cold numbing my body.
- Lia washed her hands, the cold water numbing her fingertips.
- The girl was outside at the time, watching it go down and feeling the air grow colder, nippy at first but soon so cold that it numbed the girl's fingers.
- His body movements were labored and his senses were numbed.
- I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
- If the alcohol hadn't numbed my senses I'd have been rolling on the floor.
Synonyms deadening, desensitizing, benumbing, anaesthetizing, anaesthetic freezing, glacial, raw, piercing, cutting, bitter, arctic, polar - 1.1 Cause (a sensation) to be felt less intensely; deaden.
vodka might numb the pain in my hand Example sentencesExamples - Many use drugs or alcohol in an attempt to numb their pain.
- The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
- The growth of drug abuse testifies to the increasing numbers of people wanting to escape their reality, or at least numb its pain.
- However, being drunk has always numbed my pain, and for that, the hangover has always been worth it.
- Putting ice on your heel or rolling your foot over a can of frozen juice will numb the pain, he says.
- It seemed to be numbing the pain, at least temporarily.
- Laughing gas is used by doctors and dentists as an anaesthetic or analgesic to numb pain, sedate and allay anxiety.
- The various band members found different ways to numb the pain.
- The cafe owner comments that he's relieved that crack isn't available in Nablus - he thinks people would turn to it to numb their pain.
- I found the only thing that numbed the pain was whisky, so I began drinking a bottle a day.
- It brings down inflammation and numbs pain within an hour, McCaleb says.
- He told the police in interview that it would numb the pain at the time but afterwards it would be ‘bad, really bad’.
- She drank three small glasses of hard liquor first to numb the pain, he said.
- People are able to deceive themselves and numb their pain through denial.
- I'm sure circumcised men are probably far better lovers due to the fact that their sensations are numbed.
- Insiders worry that the troubled star may turn his back on his recovery and hit the drugs to numb his pain over the end of the two-month relationship.
- The need to numb the pain of their existence is understood.
- Perhaps, though, they were just drinking to numb the pain of being rich and famous.
- We numbed the pain of what was to come by eating and drinking.
- But he did give me a sample of Biofreeze - one of those gels that heats up and numbs the pain.
Synonyms deaden, deprive of sensation, benumb, desensitize, render insensitive, dull
Origin Late Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim ‘take’. |