Depriving one of feeling or responsiveness:the numbing effect of alcohola numbing defeat...
Right now, it's a struggle to disrupt the numbing media chatter about miscalculations and mistakes - to insist on acknowledgment of moral culpability.
The addition of the Sichuan peppercorn, known as ‘huajiao’, in many dishes creates a most sudden numbing sensation in one's mouth.
Among them, nearly 400 beetles that locals called nanisani, a term that refers to the tingling or numbing sensation in the mouth when the beetles and the birds are tasted.
Derivatives
numbingly
/ˈnʌmɪŋli /adverb...
Even the shadows of its amazing columns have a numbingly huge quality.
The fresh water against your face is almost numbingly cold.