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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024numb /nʌm/USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est, v. adj. - Pathologyincapable of feeling sensations, as if under the effects of anesthesia:fingers that were numb with cold.
- empty of emotion;
stunned:felt numb with grief.
v. [~ + object] - to make numb.
numb•ing, adj. numb•ly, adv. numb•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024numb (num),USA pronunciation adj. -er, -est, v. adj. - Pathologydeprived of physical sensation or the ability to move:fingers numb with cold.
- manifesting or resembling numbness:a numb sensation.
- incapable of action or of feeling emotion;
enervated;
prostrate:numb with grief. - lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling;
indifferent:She was numb to their pleas for mercy.
v.t. - to make numb.
- late Middle English nome literally, taken, seized, variant of nomen, numen, Old English numen, past participle of niman to take, nim1 1400–50
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