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Definition of Benumbing
1. benumb [v] - See also: benumb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benumbing
Literary usage of Benumbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"... benumbing ; headache every day, as though the Ik- would burst. Thuja.
Pressing in vertex as from a nail, worse afternoon, »nd from 3 to 4 AM. better in ..."
2. A Far Country by Winston Churchill (1915)
"He seated himself at his desk, and sat for a moment gazing at me with a curious
and benumbing expression, and then the blow ..."
3. Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen by Clement King Shorter, Clement Shorier (1897)
"... age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our
heart in tears. During the period in which Wordsworth's poems were coming from ..."
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