Definition of benumb Benumb
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We found 6 definitions of benumb from 5 different sources.
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What does benumb mean?
WordNet
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| benumb - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" | ||
| numb, blunt, dull | ||
| desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- benumb (Verb)
To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. - benumb (Verb)
To deaden.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- benumb (a.)
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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benumb
be-num′, v.t. to make insensible or powerless: to stupefy (now chiefly of cold): to deaden the feelings: to paralyse generally.—p.adj. Benumbed′.—ns. Benumbed′ness, Benumb′ment. [Pfx. be- and Numb.]
Part of speech
🔤- benumb, verb, present, 1st person singular of benumb (infinitive).
- benumb, verb (infinitive).
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