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Definition of Benumb
1. Verb. Make numb or insensitive. "The performance is likely to benumb Sue"; "The shock numbed her senses"
Definition of Benumb
1. v. t. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
Definition of Benumb
1. Verb. (transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To deaden. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benumb
1. to make numb [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: numb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benumb
Literary usage of Benumb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... But the warm »un thaws the benumb'd earth, And makes it tender ; gives a sacred
birth To the dead swallow ; wakes in hollow tree The drowsy cuckoo, ..."
2. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. : An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1776)
"Still if your hands benumb'd by female fear, Shun the bold war, hark ! on my fword I
... benumb ..."
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