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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Numb

/(nŭm)/ · IPA /nʌm/
01 a. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb …
  1. 1.
    Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
  2. 2.
    Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.[Obs.]
02 v. t. To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
imp. & p. p. Numbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing
  1. 1.
    To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
    “For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.” — Dryden.
    “Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.” — Tennyson.